Sheekha Bureau
Port Blair, Jan 09: Today’s protest by students of Boys Senior Secondary School has made one thing clear that the Education System of A & N Administration needs an urgent review. The issue which went unnoticed by many was that among all demands, placed by the students, one of the prominent demands was to provide drinking water and toilet facilities for students in Boys School.
With this one can imagine how good the infrastructure of government schools is in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Boys School is believed to be the oldest and one of the prominent schools of A & N Islands. Not only this, the school is situated right at the heart of the city and a few hundred metres away from DEO South. If students of a prominent school like Boys Sr. Sec School are demanding for basic infrastructure like drinking water and toilet blocks, one can understand what will be the condition of other schools situated in remote Islands.
Andaman Sheekha has already published reports about poor infrastructures and mismanagements in remote islands of Middle and North Andaman earlier and today’s protest have confirmed that the Education system and the total management of Education Department, need an urgent review.
Adding to this as per CBSE norms every schools must have a playground and basic facilities of drinking waters and toilet block but one wonders how even prominent schools are run in Andaman without such infrastructure. Is this because of negligence of the A & N Administration or because of lack of proper check from authorities in Education Department? After protest in GSSS Swadesh Nagar School and GSSS Oralkacha School this is third such protest reported since last two months. It seems that this is just a beginning and these Islands will witness many more such protest in near future.
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