The Forum for Good Governance (FGG) has urged the State Government to take urgent steps to repair dilapidated school buildings so that the structures did not collapse on children.
The FGG lamented that not much has been done during the last eight years to repair old buildings, leave alone construction of new buildings. Many schools lack toilets and other infrastructure and there are ample number of cases where classes are run under trees due to fear of collapse of old buildings, Forum secretary M. Padmanabha Reddy said.
In a memorandum submitted to Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar, he said that though there were several reports on the condition of the dilapidated buildings, the “cataract infested” school education department was not able to see them.
