BJS given marching orders

The PCMC, in a swift action, today took charge of 18 rooms at two floors of the school building now rented out to the BJS for the residential school for the earthquake affected children. The imposing school building of the PCMC had been given to the BJS in November 1993 when over a thousand earthquake affected students arrived in Pimpri.

However, as the BJS has now constructed its own school building at Wagholi on the Pune-Ahmednagar Road following an aid given by the World Bank, the PCMC authorities asked the BJS to shift the residential school to their new building. Although some students were shifted to the new building at Wagholi, the rooms at the PCMC school building at Sant Tukaramnagar were used for the BJS school for local children.

Since the classes of the civic primary schools were conducted in sheds for almost last seven years, the PCMC felt it necessary that its own school building could be used for running its schools, and therefore directed the BJS to vacate the rooms.

Municipal Commissioner Pravinsinh Pardeshi said that only some of the rooms at the building were taken over at present as it would cause inconvenience to other students. He said that the rooms at the PCMC school building will be used for the civic primary schools which did not have proper facilities. The classes of the civic primary schools will begin in the new building from tomorrow itself, Pardeshi added.

BJS president Shantilal Mutha said that he would cooperate with the PCMC in making the rooms available to the students of the civic primary schools.

Survey: Meanwhile, the PCMC has initiated the survey for identifying persons and families who could be beneficiaries of the Suvarnajayanti scheme. The scheme has been floated to provide employment to persons below the poverty line. The survey work has been allotted to Abhiyan Foundation (Chinchwad), Samaj Vikas and Sanshodhan Sanstha and Maharashtra Jeevan Vikas Sanstha (Pimpri). The preliminary survey is to be conducted in various slums.