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Floodwaters enter school
NAWALPARASI, AUG 25 -
Students at Suryajyoti Secondary School of Jukepani village in Nawalparasi district have been taken ill after spending too much time inside classrooms submerged in rainwater.
After more than two dozen children in Grades 1, 2 and 3 came down with fever and cold related diseases, the school authority on Wednesday decided to stop classes until Sunday. The remaining grades have been advised to attend the school despite waterlogged classrooms as they have to complete the academic course in time.
Continuous rain since last week has affected the school with poor roofing. Rainwater leaked through the porous roof and formed pools inside the classrooms and children were forced to sit knee-deep in cold water everyday.
The school authority started draining the week-old filthy water from the classrooms by boring holes in the walls of classrooms.
The old school building has not seen any repair for years owing to fund crunch. The school authority said the neither the District Education Office nor the District Development Committee or the Education Ministry bothered to address the school’s predicament despite repeated requests.
Most of the children who attend school come from impoverished backgrounds so their parents also could not do much about the school’s condition. Not only is the roof of the school building riddled with holes, the classroom walls are also crumbly.
A guardian said that the classrooms are swamped with rainwater every year during the rainy season.
Posted on: 2010-08-26 08:44
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