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Proposal to replace thatched roofs in Pondy schools

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, JULY 18. A proposal has been finalised by the Government to ensure that schools running classes in thatched sheds were provided pucca structures, according to an informed source here today.

An emergency meeting convened recently by the Education Minister with the officials of the Education, PWD, Fire Services and other concerned departments decided to form committees to assess the situation in Government and private schools in the Union Territory.

The source said that immediately some Rs 50 crores would be needed to convert the thatched sheds into proper structures, as students should not be exposed to risk. Necessary instructions were being issued to all schools in Government and private sector.

All schools in Pondicherry should have full-fledged structures as early as possible replacing makeshift arrangements and this stand of the Government would govern private schools also.

Homage

The Education Minister, K. Lakshminarayanan announced here today that all schools including private institutions in Pondicherry and Karaikal will remain closed tomorrow to pay homage to the school children who died in a fire accident in Kumbakonam on Friday last.

Meanwhile members of the Pondicherry State Lecturers Association today observed silence for a couple of minutes at a meeting of the Association here in memory of the children killed in the fire mishap in a Kumbakonam school on Friday last.

The meeting also adopted a resolution condoling the death of the children.

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