Andhra Pradesh - Khammam   

Student panels to supervise functioning of ashram schools

— Photo. G. N. Rao

Who cares? Classes being conducted in the water logged ground of the government high school in the Nagarjunasagar project camp in Khammam district.

KHAMMAM: The 142 tribal ashram schools and welfare hostels in the district will soon have student panels to monitor their functioning on a day to day basis.

The panels were aimed at facilitating effective involvement of the inmates in supervision and monitoring of the services. The students would have their say in matters such as upkeep of the buildings, quality of the repair works, sanitation, lighting, sports and games and management of the mess and menu.

Each ashram school would have eight separate student panels discharging separate responsibilities. Each panel would maintain a separate register. The student committees would be provided with eight post cards a month. The cards would be used for mailing their grievances to the ITDA project officer and to draw his immediate attention.

The student panels would be a major source of feed back on functioning of the ashram schools. ITDA project officer Budha Prakash Jyothi would conduct meeting with the members of all these panels at least once in a month. He made a surprise visit to the ST girls hostel at Madhira and he was in for a rude shock to find surroundings water logged and the corridors quite slippery. He wanted the hostel authorities constitute student panels as the first step in the direction of streamlining the functioning of the hostel. He enquired with the students on the quality of the repair works taken up in the hostel with the funds sanctioned under the Samkshema Bata programme.

The project officer said the government had sanctioned Rs 3.46 lakhs for giving a face lift to the hostel. Some of the workers were completed while others were still underway. He pulled up the warden on the poor state of sanitation around the hostel.

An assistant tribal welfare officer and an employee, who accompanied the project officer to the hostel, had a fall in the slippery corridors. The warden was also asked to take a walk in the spot to know for himself how difficult and dangerous the feat was.

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