Mgmt playing with our future: Students
Irfan Tramboo
SRINAGAR, Oct 21: Owing to the ‘financial downfall’, the Devki Arya Putri Pathshala (DAPP) is set to close down the school by the end of this month, leaving scores of students in a lurch.
As per the details, the school is facing financial crunch for last one year and recently the issue of salary to teachers cropped up after which the school administration took up the matter with the office of the Deputy Commissioner.
As the students came to know about what they called as a sudden move of the school administration, they started protesting against it and said that the school administration was playing with their career.
”We were given the reason that the school building is unsafe due to the damages caused to it during the floods. How come the building was safe since 2014 and now, all of a sudden, the building is unsafe for us?” Aisha a class 9 student of the school told Excelsior.
The school is more than 100 years old and currently, almost 300 students are enrolled there in different classes
After the school administration approached the authorities, the ADC visited the school and took the stock of the situation. However, after the visit of the ADC, a letter was written to the Director School Education, informing him that the administration of the school has decided to close down the school due to the financial crunch and is not in a position of repairing the building which is in dilapidated condition.
The letter issued from the office of the Deputy Commissioner states that they have received a communication from the President, Devki Arya Putri Pathshala, Hazuri Bagh that they are facing financial downfall.
The students, who have been left in the lurch, said that they are indecisive on what they are supposed to do. “We have got nowhere to go. To get the admission in another school, we need to get the migration certificate, they have made it difficult to us; how can they decide to close the school all of a sudden,” said Shahnaz, another student of the school.
President of the School, Veena Chandok told Excelsior that due to various factors, it was difficult for the management to keep the school functional and subsequently it was decided to close it down.
“We have tied up with the Khalsa School, they are ready to accommodate all the students; the fee structure is the same and I request the parents to let the school [Khalsa] admit their wards,” she said.
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