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Urdu schools not to be merged

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Collector comes face-to-face with ground realities in old city

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REALITY CHECK: Collector Navin Mittal and MP Asaduddin Owaisi during a visit to schools in old city on Thursday.

HYDERABAD: A few government Urdu medium schools in the old city have earned an unexpected reprieve. They will continue to function at the existing place and not be merged with other schools. Hyderabad Collector Navin Mittal has decided to withdraw the academic clubbing in respect of some schools after seeing the ground realities on Thursday.

Students of Government Primary School, Marwadi lane, need not take the trouble of crossing the busy Langar Houz crossroad where a flyover is under construction to reach the SMHM government primary school. The school will function at the existing place. Teachers were the happiest lot on learning this as the merger decision had put fresh admissions on hold.

Similarly, students of Government Primary School, Filter Bed, don’t have to take a long walk to reach the Government Boys Primary School, First Lancer, where their school is merged. Mr. Mittal agreed to stop academic clubbing of both schools and offered to construct a building to accommodate English, Urdu and Telugu medium sections. Mr. Mittal took these decisions after visiting some of the schools in Asifnagar and Karwan Assembly constituencies on Thursday along with Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi and MLAs Moazam Khan and Afsar Khan.

Mr. Owaisi convinced the Collector not to merge the Government Primary School, Qhazi Galli, and Government Primary School Dhanalakshmipura into the Government Upper Primary School Mufeed-un-Niswan. These primary schools could be shifted to areas which have no schools. Mr. Mittal agreed to shift the Dhanlakshmipura school to a private building at Faran Cottage and the other school to a community hall.

It was also decided to stop the merger of Government Primary School, Kumarwadi and Government Primary School, Salehnagar. The latter will be shifted to Kancha locality which has no schools.

The Government Girls High School at Ahmednagar was in a pathetic condition. The run-down school has neither electricity, drinking water nor toilets. Mr. Mittal promised to take up construction of classrooms and provide basic amenities at the earliest.

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