IIOJK’s Bandipora boys school lacks adequate space
Srinagar: The Boys Middle School in Kralpora village in Bandipora district of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir lacks adequate space, which is affecting the standard of education.
According to Kashmir Media Service, local people told the media that they have been urging higher-ups for additional land and buildings for the school for over a decade so that children at the school receive uninterrupted education in a safe environment
The insiders in the school shared grim details narrating how they have to “run four classes in a single classroom” as the school also lacks ground space.
Even though the school has six teachers, they aren’t able to do justice as the lack of space “is a huge problem” in imparting quality education from KG to 8th standard.
The school was upgraded to a middle school in 2009 after an old structure was demolished somewhere between 2004 and 2005.
The school has just three rooms, two of which are used for classroom purposes. The additional space of the office room is also being used to teach a few classes, the insiders said.
“For the past three years, the issue has become more complex. This happened when the landlord closed the extra space of five classrooms that the education department had been renting,” locals claimed.
The dilapidated condition of the building as well as classrooms, which the school administration claimed was due to faulty drainage choked by the villagers, was visible.
Besides, when it snows, the snow that falls from the roof gets into the classrooms which ruins the interiors and infrastructure, locals said.
Head of the institution Zahoor Ahmad agreed that there was an accommodation issue in the school for hundred enrolled children.
He, however, said that the representation for additional space and building has been sent to the higher ups.
