Excelsior Correspondent
POONCH, Oct 22: Exposing tall claims of the Government of development and due attention towards Education sector, a Govt Middle School in Tehsil Mandi in district Poonch is lying without roof for the last one decade.
Abandoned by the contractor after completion of the school building up to walls only, the concerned Zonal Education Officer, Mandi Zone, Chief Education Officer, Poonch and even the District Administration Poonch, have totally failed to take cognizance of the matter while, about 60 students of this Govt Middle School, Dugian, have been left to suffer.
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Excelsior team paid visit to the school today and talked to the students, school teachers and even the locals of the area. They narrated their woes and said that there is only one unsafe room for the students and staff. It is not possible to take 8 classes in single room by the teachers. The students are made to sit in the open under sun and during rain, the school is closed. During chilling winters many children get sick.
Teacher Mohd Riaz said that the contractor abandoned the work due to paucity of funds. The matter was taken up with the ZEO several times but the work could not be resumed. The students said during rain their studies affect badly but the Government takes no action. A local, Bashir Ahmed said that the matter was taken up with the ZEO, CEO and even the former local MLA from PDP but no body bothers about the plight of our children.
ZEO, Mohd Aslam Kohli, however, claimed that Department would lodge FIR against the contractor, who has not completed the work. He said the matter came to his notice and he would take up the same with the CEO as well.
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