Repairing and reconstructing the unsafe schools buildings is an unavoidable compulsion not only for the safety of the lives of students and teachers but also for the implementation of the enrolment drive in Government schools as wisdom demands that Government restrains teachers from enrolling children in schools run from unsafe buildings.
Though stress for quality education and much hyped enrolment drive in Government schools revolves around availability of infrastructural facilities but unfortunately several government buildings have been declared unsafe by the R&B Department in recent years and amalgamation of such schools with the nearest schools by the authorities of the school education department has triggered the crisis of overcrowding in classrooms. After the amalgamation schools declared unsafe for teaching activities with the nearest schools the overcrowding in classrooms has become unmanageable equally due to space crunch and unwillingness of both the teachers and as well as the students to share classes for a long time. Obviously the unprecedented delays in the reconstruction and repairs of the unsafe schools buildings during the reigns of erstwhile popular governments of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state is forcing the incumbent Government to amalgamate schools run from unsafe buildings with the nearest schools in some semi urban and rural areas of both Kashmir Valley and Jammu division. Since conducting teaching activities in unsafe buildings by all standards of understandabilities is tantamount to risking the lives of both the students and as well as the teachers, administrative wisdom demands that Government rolls out a plan of action for identifying the unsafe school buildings for reconstructing and repairing them in given timelines in both Kashmir Valley and as well as Jammu division. Repairing and reconstructing the unsafe schools buildings is an unavoidable compulsion not only for the safety of the lives of students and teachers but also for the implementation of the enrolment drive in Government schools as wisdom demands that Government restrains teachers from enrolling children in schools run from unsafe buildings in both Kashmir Valley and Jammu division.
“Till the Government rolls out a plan of action for reconstruction and repairs of unsafe school buildings administrative wisdom demands that School Education Department hires private buildings for the schools run from unsafe buildings instead of amalgamating them with the nearest schools as amalgamations not only result in overcrowding in classrooms but also leads to unwanted conflicts between both the teachers and the students of two different schools. After all the capacity of a teacher to mould the conduct and behaviour of students shows his/her capacity to create a harmonious classroom environment and no teacher in any part of world can mould the conduct and behaviour of the students of two different school environments in a single classroom”.
Since the initiative of reconstructing and repairing unsafe school building could begin with the identification of unsafe buildings and allocation of budget for such works, It is for the Deputy Commissioners to take up the initiative in consultation with the School Education Department in the jurisdiction of their own districts and roll out a plan of action for reconstruction and repairs of unsafe school buildings. Till the Government rolls out a plan of action for reconstruction and repairs of unsafe school buildings administrative wisdom demands that School Education Department hires private buildings for the schools run from unsafe buildings instead of amalgamating them with the nearest schools as amalgamations not only result in overcrowding in classrooms but also leads to unwanted conflicts between both the teachers and the students of two different schools. After all the capacity of a teacher to mould the conduct and behaviour of students shows his/her capacity to create a harmonious classroom environment and no teacher in any part of world can mould the conduct and behaviour of the students of two different school environments in a single classroom.
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