The long awaited rains brought smiles on the faces of a large number of farmers across the State, no doubt. But it has also instilled fear among some students. This is a peculiar situation in Medak district.
M. Sabita is an eighth class English medium student staying at Balasadan located at Narayankhed mandal headquarters in Medak district. She is a native of Karasgutti in Manoor mandal and staying in the hostel for the past seven years since her admission in Class II. For the past one week she is staying along with a group of students.
“The roof leaks whenever there is a heavy rain. We fear it may cave in all of a sudden,” Sabita told The Hindu . She says that whenever it rains they take shelter in the rooms inside.
Partial collapseA. Roja, also an eighth class student, from Mansoorpur in Narayankhed, agrees with Sabita. She even recalls partial collapse of a building in the past, maybe three years back. There are about 60 students, while three are orphans, nine have a single parent . The remaining 42 are children from below poverty line (BPL) families. “We can go nowhere. We have to stay here only, but living with fear is like hell,” they say.
S. Raju, a volunteer of Sadhana, an NGO working at Narayanakhed area, says that the building is reaching a dilapidated stage and no one is looking at the potential danger in case of collapse. Though the foundation stone was laid for the construction of a new building in January by former Collector Smita Sabharwal, nothing moved from then on.
“There is an urgent need to construct the building immediately. About 15 years back the then Collector allotted this building for us and for the past five years there is problem with this,” G. Vijaya Kumari, in-charge warden, Balasadan told The Hindu .
