Angry over closure of schools,villagers to carry out protest during Gunotsav

The teachers have stopped coming to the village schools,while the students are given meals by the villagers. Angered by the abrupt closure of the school mid-session,the villagers from Kwant and Naswadi submitted a memorandum to the respective mamlatdars on Friday to carry out their protests during Gunotsav.

“The schools have been rendered non-functional since last month and though they want to shift the schools to Rangpur,the premises there have no proper infrastructure. On one hand while the government is celebrating Gunotsav,schools here are being closed,” said Ratan Bhagat,a villager at Kwant.

S M Patel,the project administrator of the girls’ residential school said: “The grant from the Centre was released with a condition to have functional schools within a year. So,in order to utilise the grants,we had started small schools at rented premises till we found a proper facility. We are now trying to a have a proper residential set-up at Rangpur with every facility. We will subsequently incorporate the facilities.”

The girls’ residential schools had started with Class VIII and this year,Class IX will be included. There are around 200 students in the 12 schools and the school in the new premises at Rangpur is expected to start from Monday.