Bamra: The classrooms as well as premises of the Rajabasa Primary School in Rangiatikra panchayat under Bamra block in Sambalpur district wear a deserted look due to lack of maintenance.
This school is a matter of disgrace for the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan programme of the Central government. As the classrooms are in a dilapidated state, students are left with no other option but to attend classes under trees in the open air.
Frustrated over the department’s apathy towards the school, local villagers submitted a memorandum to the state Education Minister through Bamra BDO, Friday.
Allegedly, all together four classrooms of the Rajabasa Primary School are lying in a precarious condition. Repair of the school building started in December 2018 with Rs 2 lakh sanctioned by the 14th Central Finance Commission, but work is only half complete now.
Altogether 47 students are studying in this school in Classes I to V. In the absence of safe classrooms, they are being forced to continue their studies in the open air.
When contacted, school head master Santosh Bara said, “Despite repeated appeal to the departmental officers and school managing committee, there has been no improvement in the condition of the school”.
Meanwhile, junior engineer Sanjay Hembram, who is supervising the repair work at the school, said, “The work will be completed very soon”. Similarly, BDO Sushil Kujur said, “There will be polling booths in this school during the upcoming general election. Hence, the repairing work will be completed before that”.
PNN
