Excelsior Correspondent
MENDHAR, Sept 9: The teachers of Government Primary School (GPS), Bandianar, Zone Mankote, are bound to take classes in the open for last over four years as the ceiling of the School building has bent down since its construction in 2008 while the cracks have developed on the walls.
The school which was functioning as EGS Centre before it was promoted to Primary School in 2008 has a strength of about 40-45 students. As soon as the School came up in 2008, a building comprising three rooms and a verandah was erected but very early cracks developed on the walls of the building and roof of the building bent down due to which the students are bound to sit in the open sky and during harsh weather conditions, the school remains closed.
Moreover, the students are suffered with a strange disease of itching due to coming in contact with poisonous plants grown on the ground of the School, where their classes are held.
All the teaching aids and other belongings of the School have been kept in the room of a house belonging to a local namely Abdul Majid, who alleged that he had never been paid rent for the room.
When locals approached in this concern to Deputy Chief Education Officer, Mendhar, Mohd Sadiq Choudhary, he paid a visit to the School and found that the building of the School is in worst condition. The Zonal Education Officer, Mankote, Abdul Rashid Choudhary, however assured that the building will be repaired within a few months.
Meanwhile, there are reports that most of the schools located close to LoC in Zone Balakote are lying closed unofficially due to firing from across the border that too when MP Madan Lal Sharma is on the visit of the area.
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