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An initiative by an NGO helps six schools in the city have basic facilities
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FOR YEARS they have been accustomed to sit on the hard dusty floors under asbestos ceilings of dingy rooms located in byzantine lanes.
But IVth std student, Javed Ahmed of Government Primary School Rasoolpura and his classmates have a reason to smile now. Like their peers in other corporate and convent schools, they too would soon have tables and chair to sit, use their own school toilets and sports kits to nurture their dreams of donning the national colours.
About six government primary schools in the twin cities which lack even the basic infrastructural facilities would soon get a new look, thanks to the Vizianagaram-based NGO Association for Rural Development and Action Research (ARDAR) which in association with the Ing Vysya has decided to adopt these schools and provide the necessary infrastructural facilities. Says R. Satish Kumar, headmaster, of Government Primary School, Bandimatta, Patighatta, "at present we do not even have toilet and drinking water facilities for our 380 students.
The project, I hope, would create at least the minimum facilities for the children." Incidentally, for the past four years, the school despite its pathetic conditions had been producing 100 per cent results in the VII class board exams.
"There is no almirah to store the files and the attendance register. But now under the project we have been allotted a steel almirah and some furniture for teachers. Hope things would further improve for us," avers, K.Geeta, headmistress of Government Primary School, Rasoolpura. Laments D. Shankar, headmaster of the Government Primary School, Rasoolpura, "We have five small rooms in a rented building to accommodate 220 students. The school neither has power supply nor other basic amenities like water and toilet facilities."
No basic amenities
The schools -- three each in Hyderabad and Secunderabad - were identified, based on a detailed needs-based analysis in selected clusters. The identified schools have a combined approximate strength of 1000 students from I to V std. The project is a part of the organisation's social objective to facilitate quality education in government schools and address the needs of the local communities. Most of the schools even lack proper teaching aid materials like black boards, chalk pieces and furniture. The idea is to initially provide for the minimum needs and later take up the long-term facilities, says N. Sanjeev, project coordinator of ARDAR.
R. BALAJI
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