Dilemma of TMC School no-71

We all have heard and seen about numerous news on tussles between political parties in India and how Aam junta is dragged into it and suffer due to this.

But, you perhaps feel too baffled to react when you seechildren below 14 years of age and primary teacher suffer due to clash in egos of two political parties in Thane.

The picture attached in this blog tells all about it.

The current TMC school no - 71 in Kalva, runs into a building which few people amazes how survived the last rainy season. Children sit on the floor without mats. About the sanitation and hygiene of this building, sorry, I looked into my dictionary for the word but couldn't find one to describe the pity.

Irony is strikingly shown in the picture where a new building with board 'TMC school no-71' is shown. This building is ready since June 2010 but of course the political party leading the TMC was different than current ruling party.

How can previous political party let the current political party take the credit for the TMC school building?

As a result of this, children,parents and teachers are allowed to look at this building only from outside and hope that one day they will be allowed to enter and children will be able study under the roof of this new building.

Meeting with Headmistress - TMC school No -71, Kalwa

Col Venkat and Chandra Ramamurthy went to visit the school headmaster of School no 71 in the hope of assistance of a school teacher for the enrolment drive at Shantinagar. The school ahs a new building constructed in the adjacent plot that remains locked.

On inquiry one of the teachers Ms Mohad shared that the headmistress- Panshe madam will be in school from 11- 5.30. Col Venkat and Chandra shared the purpose of the visit- to which Ms Mohad told us that the school was short staffed and even the headmistress would recommend requesting the Anand Nagar School for teachers.

Ms. Mohad also shared that the new building was inaugurated on 3rd July but was yet to be occupied by the students. She suggested that meeting Mr. Suresh Gada, who is the chairman of the education department, would be more useful than the EO who works under him. She also provided numbers of teachers at Anand nagar and at Pandurang School Kalwa (which is an aided school) who would be useful in helping with the enrollment drive. The condition of the classroom in the school was one without electricity (there were no lights or fans that were working, children were seated on the cold floor without any mat, let alone school furniture and the rains in the morning were not severe enough to reveal leaks in the asbestos roofing.

Col Venkat and Chandra visited another school in the same compound which was TMC school number 115. The in charge Ms Meera Godke shared that the same compound housed Marathi, Hindi and Urdu mediums. She said that they were n=more than willing to send teachers to the community provided it was given to them in written form. When shared that the EO had verbally assured us that the headmasters would provide teachers for the enrollment drive, she reiterated that they would need a written directive fro the EO.

The next step discussed by Col. Venkat and Chandra, was to request Mr. Ravindra to follow up with the EO about teachers for the enrollment drive and as a back up-the teachers who had assisted the volunteers in Gandhi nagar can be requested to help.