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Quami School without a `roof'

Staff Reporter

Bare minimum infrastructure is now threatening the school to shutdown

NEW DELHI: Functioning out of tents and tarpaulin sheets in the heart of the Capital for nearly three decades now, this is a school that continues to see the ghosts of the Emergency. And this past Saturday as the country observed the 30th anniversary of the imposition of Emergency, students at Quami School here yet again prayed for a school with a `roof'.

The Government-aided school's original five-storey building with 68 rooms in Sarai Khaleel area was razed on May 15,1976, with the then DDA Chairman and a senior Congress leader assuring that the school would get a building and a playground in the vicinity.

But shock awaited the school, when they realised that the ground they were given temporary accommodation to store their furniture was actually Eidgah.

With the school providing education to Muslim children from the Sadar, Qasabpura, Quresh Nagar, Bara Hindu Rao and Kishanganj in the Walled City area of Delhi, bare minimum infrastructure is now threatening the school to shutdown.

If summer meant bearing the burning sun, the coming monsoon is a further worry for the school authorities.

"We met many leaders who assured us a land and although things seemed to work, the Government would change and the struggle would begin all over for us.

In fact, the DDA had given us a land but it was priced so high that we could not gather the funds for it. All we are asking for is a land that is available at a discounted rate,'' said Furqan Ahmad, economics teacher at the school. Founded in 1948, Quami School was taken over by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi in 1960 as a primary school and raised to the higher secondary level in 1975.

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