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Displaced schools from high security zones lack basic

Many of schools that are displaced due to the declaration of high security zones and are functioning in ad hoc locations lack very basic facilities. Yet, the government is apathetic about the situation. As a result the displaced schools that are poorly provided for may have to be closed.

These displaced schools have been running in private lands for the last 15 years. Classrooms in these schools are just temporary huts. Government is refusing to fund permanent buildings because the schools do not have its own land.

For example, Vasavilan Mahavidhyalayam displaced from Valigamam north is presently functioning in a private land in Urumpirai. Classes are run in temporary huts and on mud floors. The school has more than thousand students, both boys and girls. Yet the school does not even have basic toilet facilities or drinking water. Many of the hut roofs are leaking badly during rain.

At the same time other schools are becoming equipped with computers, science laboratories and other facilities for learning information technology. As a result students are gradually moving to these schools that are better equipped. This is leading to a situation where the displaced schools that are neglected by the government may have to close down.

The education community has issued an appeal to the government to allow these displaced schools to function in their own buildings to avoid such an eventuality.

09 June 2005

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