3 days ago
Khandepar govt school kids still under plastic roofs
Ponda:
For the second consecutive academic year, students of govt primary school, Khandepar, Ponda, will have to sit in classrooms under plastic sheet roofs after the contractor failed to replace them before the monsoon.
'The contractor must have delayed the work till the end of May, but monsoon arrived early, making the contractor unable to complete the work on time,' said Sitaram Naik, additional district education inspector (ADEI), Ponda.
Naik said that at the central zone ADEI meeting held in April at Panaji, education minister Pramod Sawant had directed the PWD to ensure that contractors change the school roof before the new academic year, which began on Wednesday.
Besides the roof, the building wall has cracks and weakened wooden rafters. Naik said repairs may be taken up during the Diwali vacation, as they cannot do repairs before then.
