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DRIVEN UP THE WALL: Students of Tambaram Municipal Primary School having lunch on a street nearby, owing to space constraint inside. TAMBARAM: It is summer time and there is little to cheer about the weather, particularly for the 105 students of Tambaram Municipal Primary School in M. G. R.Nagar. The students and teachers too are accommodated in a single, undivided classroom that is about 200 square feet. With asbestos roofing and in the absence of a ceiling fan, they get roasted in the summer. The school lacks toilets, noon meal kitchen and other amenities that any such institution should have. In the absence of a kitchen, the students are deprived of the weekly three eggs and the nutritious meal. Hence, they bring whatever their mothers pack for lunch. As not all students can sit inside the classroom and have their lunch, many of them, at least the elder students, eat under the shade of trees on the street opposite the school. The primary school was earlier functioning under the Education Guarantee Scheme of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan before it was taken over by Tambaram Municipality a couple of years ago. This is the only government school that caters for students from M. G. R. Nagar and the neighbouring Bharat Nagar that were created to accommodate people who were evicted during drives against slum-dwellers and encroachments in Chennai city a couple of decades ago. While there is an Integrated Child Development Services Centre in M.G.R. Nagar, there is none in Bharat Nagar, parents told reporters on Monday. They said the government allotted more than Rs.4 lakh through the SSA for constructing a new building with two classrooms in a plot close to the existing primary school. But when the work on the classrooms was nearing completion it was abandoned, about a year ago. Parents said if the incomplete work was finished, it could save a lot of trouble to students and teachers. Parents appealed to officials of the Department of Municipal Administration and Water Supply, the Kancheepuram district administration and the School Education Department to visit the school premises to understand the plight of students and teachers. SSA officials said they had granted Rs.4.36 lakh to the Village Education Committee of the area in November 2006 and had it been completed then, students could have shifted to the new classrooms in 2007 itself.
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