Jackson Tayeng

Riloh/ Pakke Kesang, Mar 12:  Even after months of a report being published by this daily highlighting the pathetic infrastructural condition of the classrooms, toilets, hostel and teachers’ quarters of Government Residential School, Pasa Camp in Pakke Kesang, the current picture suggest that it has received little attention from the administration.
“We are using the same dilapidated toilets, classrooms and hostel,” lamented the students in unison. When asked about their meals, they informed that no nutritional development has taken place and it’s the same twice-a-day as before, at mornings and evenings. 
Making a revisit to the school it was discovered that the school bell has been replaced with an iron pipe and condition of the classrooms had only worsened over these months. Toilets continue remaining dilapidated with  teachers adjusting themselves in single rooms and petrol-run generator the only mean of having electricity. “We have to replace the bell since it had worn out and broken into pieces recently and the school authority has sent requisition for a new one,” informed Elosan Hiffo,
a teacher in the school. “We are helpless about the poor infrastructure and there is a single toilet to cater to the needs of more than 100 students and staff.  Waking up in the wee hours to use it to avoid the rush is a daily affair,” lamented the teacher. 
Besides all these, repeated floods is an annual challenge and after enquiring about teachers' quarters, it was revealed that three/four teachers have to be accommodated in a single room. “Common people had donated land to shift the school and we are waiting for it. But to run it properly we need more facilities like teachers’ barrack, boys hotel, toilets, kitchen shed and others,” informed Hiffo.
When contacted, the local MLA and President State BJP Biyuram Waghe accepted the hardships being faced by the school. “We will definitely bring changes in the school and I will personally take up the  matter,” assured the MLA while informing that he has also extended required support from his MLALAD fund in the previous year and if needed he will again use the same for the school’s betterment.
A few infrastructure like toilet and hostel have been already constructed at the new site, the MLA informed and assured his all-possible support in a phased manner. 

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
      She is a graduate in Science with post graduation in Sociology from University of Pune. She has been in the media industry for nearly a decade. Before turning to print business, she has been associated with radio and television.
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