Of available 5 rooms, 3 of this Rajouri school declared unsafe

While Government Higher Secondary School (GHSS) Panihad inRajouri district has total 5 rooms, three of them have been declared unsafe,thus a risk to the lives of students studying in the school.

Local youth Amjad Chowdhary and Panches, Saddam Hussain andBashir Ahmed claimed that the school was established in Panihad in 1948 andupgraded as Middle School in 1978.

   

Later in 1994, the panchayat representatives and the localyouth said that the school was further upgraded to the level of Higher Secondary.They said that the present strength of the students studying in the school is400. 

According to them, students from Panihad, Sokar, Parori,Chambi Trar, Karhad and Tarkassi Panchayats have been studying in GHSS Panihad.

They further said that four classrooms and one staffroomconstructed in the school in the year 1994 was damaged with the passage oftime. Later, two classrooms were constructed by Army under OperationSadhbhawana while two additional rooms were constructed two years ago by localsand school staff. 

At present, the school building has one staff roomconstructed two decades back, two classrooms constructed by Army in 2006 whichare in shambles and two rooms constructed two years back, which is in goodcondition, they said.  

“So, now the students are made to study from a buildingwhich has three of the classrooms declared unsafe by the Public WorksDepartment,” they said.

As per sources, Principal of the school raised the issue ofdamage of school building in 2015 after which PWD conducted a survey and adetailed report was submitted to the CEO Rajouri office on March 17, 2015.

In its inspection report, the engineers of PWD mentionedthat some portion of school building was completely unsafe and beyond repairwhile two classrooms were repairable but unsafe for use.

The PWD also mentioned requirement of Rs 8.50 lakh forrepairing the two rooms of the building.

But, according to the locals, after the survey, no furthereffort was made to repair the school building.

When contacted, CEO Rajouri, Mohammad Ashraf Rather, said,”A new four-room school building has been proposed for the school and thesanction of the same is awaited.”

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