With rickety building, Bhainsa Tibba school still not class apart

Ishrat S Banwait

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Tribune News Service

Panchkula, February 20

In the interiors of Sector 4, Mansa Devi Complex, lies Bhainsa Tibba village. It houses a 55-year-old government primary school which has just four rooms. Of these, one is not being used as its walls are crumbling and the school considers it unsafe. Lack of space forces classes to be held in the corridors and the concrete ground outside.

The school does not have benches for many classes to be held simultaneously and most students sit on the floor. The three classrooms are dimly lit with just one bulb. The electricity supply is inconsistent and the bulbs keep flickering which makes one wonder whether the light is enough for the eyes.

The rickety building is at a constant risk and just like the one closed room, the other rooms have damp walls and cracks in them. Teachers inform that the door of one of the classrooms had fallen apart sometime back but a huge crack has again appeared in it.

The room for mid-day meal is the only one to have been newly-built. It stands in one corner while there is a toilet in the other. There is no staff room and even the school head sits outside in the open on a table and chair. The problem with sitting outside is more serious during the summers and gets worse during the rains when children have to be crammed in whatever little covered area the school has.

There is virtually no playground for the school as the whole area is made of concrete and some swings that are there are not used and the classes are held under and around them. The school is inside a residential area of the village and has houses directly adjacent to it. It gives free access to anyone wishing to enter the school through a staircase on the wall adjoining the mid-day meal room.