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Replace tent classrooms with portable cabins: Court
Wednesday January 25, 2012 07:28:07 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Taking a
serious note of schools being run from tents, the Delhi High Court
Wednesday directed the government to immediately replace the
temporary structures with pre-fabricated portable cabins.
The court's order came on a plea filed by NGO Social Jurist which
highlighted the poor facilities at a government co-education
secondary school in Sundar Nagri in east Delhi.
"It is torturous for students and also the teachers. Since
construction of building will take substantial time, the
government is advised to set up portable cabins immediately," the
court said.
The division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice
R.S. Endlaw directed the competent authorities to provide all
infrastructures and safety to 390 students studying in the school.
The NGO said the schools were using tents as classrooms despite
the court's earlier order to the Delhi government and civic
agencies not to run classes in tents.
The division bench said: "We cannot allow the school to run like
this. Even schools having nice buildings remain closed during the
cold in December and what will happen to these children."
Advocate Ashok Agarwal, appearing for the NGO, told the court:
"Only the boundary wall of the school is under construction and
the completion of a building with 32 classrooms will take at least
two to three years. The students have been suffering in the cold."
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