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Students demand facelift to schools

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Survey conducted on conditions

Want of amenities with teacher posts vacant
SFI leader alleges failure to supply textbooks

Kakinada: The city unit of the SFI as a part of the state-wide programme has conducted a special survey on conditions prevailing in the 15 municipal schools in the city and found the schools in bad shape with basic amenities lacking and many teacher posts remaining vacant, according to Ch Venkatesh, SFI district president.

Addressing a press conference along with Y Siva and P. Anantha Lakshmi, city unit convenors, here on Thursday, he said municipal schools with 7500 students and 194 teachers required basic amenities such as toilets, drinking water and furniture.

He said the Government had failed in supplying the textbooks within stipulated time.

Citing the condition of the GMC Balayogi municipal schools as glaring example, he said though the upper primary school was upgraded to high school four years ago, not even a single B.Ed teacher was posted there.

Pointing out that the teachers despite the drawbacks were able to achieve 80 per cent results, Mr. Venkatesh wondered how the Government could expect the schools to compete with other private schools and insist that teachers improve the standard of education.

Special panel sought

To ensure required improvement in working of municipal schools, he said, the SFI wanted the corporation authorities to constitute a special committee headed by Commissioner to ensure effective supervision for every fortnight and provide basic amenities besides filling vacant teacher posts.

It also demanded that all textbooks should be supplied within a week. Mr. Venkatesh said the SFI would organise high school bandh all over the district for two days on July 13 and 14 to focus the attention of the Government on students’ problems.

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