Cracks in the system: School building in Jaipur falls apart due to neglect

JAIPUR: Rajasthan Council for School Education (RCSE) has sanctioned Rs 16 lakh for the renovation of the Government Upper Primary School at Jagannathpura, just 20 km from the city centre, which has been standing in a dilapidated condition.
TOI had highlighted the school’s wretched condition in a report. A day after TOI’s report, headlined ‘Schools wait for renovation while fearing monsoon rain’, was published on May 1.
Officials of the education department and local administration had visited the school and assured of assistance after the model code of conduct for Lok Sabha polls was lifted.
The walls of the school building had developed cracks, and water seeped in during the rains.
While the school authorities had written several letters to the education department and MLAs in the previous months, all their pleas had fallen on deaf ears.
A few days before TOI published its report on the school's condition, a section of the plaster had fallen off the ceiling.
During the inspection on May 2, additional chief block officer-II Rajendra Kumar Bansal and panchayat elementary education officer Sushma Pareek had found the school building unfit to hold classes.
Bansal had said that repair work would begin after the model code of conduct was lifted. He also directed the school authorities to not hold classes in the damaged classrooms.