MANGALORE: If it rains on Monday, it is as good as a holiday for students of fifth and sixth standard of Ira-Balepuni Government Higher Primary School, situated on the Karnataka-Kerala border.When the school re-opens on October 24 after a month-long Dasara vacation, 48 fifth and sixth standard students looking forward to classroom-teaching within four walls will surely be disappointed. For their classes will continue to be held in the school verandah under makeshift sheets.Cluster Resource Person (CRP) Nagaraj Padakkanaya in charge of Ira-Balepuni School says headmistress Savitha was forced to conduct classes for these students in the verandah after PWD declared the classroom unsafe.The tiled roof of the building, replaced by RCC roof 12 years ago, had developed cracks and chips of cement at places where the wall meets the ceiling had begun to peel off, resulting in further damage to structure.The 49-year-old school built on two acres donated by philanthropist Kunhi Ahmed Haji faces a shortage of five classrooms, headmistress Savitha informs. Though Sarva Shikshana Abhiyana (SSA) had made a spot inspection of the dilapidated classroom, nothing much had happened, she informs.
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