PONDA: A school that gives excellent results deserves good treatment and good infrastructure from the government. Not that poorly performing schools deserve less, but good performance naturally leads to differential treatment.
Leave alone preferential treatment, even proper classrooms are not provided to the students of the Government High School at Dhavshirem in Usgao that secured centum results at the March-April 2016 SSC exams conducted by the Goa Board.
Since the government failed to repair and renovate the school before the monsoons, classes are conducted under leaking roofs, and worse, even in rooms that have no roofs.
Sources say that since the roofs of six classrooms have been opened up for repairs, a large number of students have been accommodated in the houses of private citizens residing in the vicinity; some classes are also held in Dhalo Mandap hall meant for women.
While incessant rains keep lashing the village and the students and teachers are struggling to cope up with the situation, the work of repair and renovation is going on at snail’s pace.
Sources say that the classrooms whose roofs were opened up for repairs are unusable, and the classrooms whose roofs were repaired are leaking.
Meanwhile, the angry and worried parents have now demanded immediate completion of the repair and renovation work; they have also demanded that the government intervene in the matter to force the contractor to complete the works at the earliest, lest the health and life of their children are put at risk.
Stating that conducting classes in the houses of private citizens and public places is not conducive to learning, the parents say that had the authorities concerned completed the repair and renovation of the school before the onset of the monsoons, the present situation would not have occurred.
PTA Chairman Pran Gavde said, “The government should immediately look into the matter and get the work done on war footing. We are worried about the health of our children and hardship and inconvenience they are facing at the school.”
