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For 600 students, HSS Poondh has just 7 rooms 10/12/2016 11:37:32 PM Vinod Sharma Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 12: Prime Minister Narendra Modi may be busy with announcements on digitalization of India, but in J&K such measures hold little meaning. Take the example of Higher Secondary School Poondh, where classes are run under the open sky for last more than decade. The strength of students in this school is above 600, but there are only nine rooms available out of which seven are used as classrooms and two for laboratories. In the last session three new rooms constructed under Sarav Shiksha Abhiyyan were also handed over to school and are used for classrooms but still few classes are held in open sky, sources said. The new rooms were housing class 11 and 12, where as the class 7 and 8 have been running in open for the last more than one decade. Around 16 years have passed since the school was upgraded from High to Higher Secondary but there was no addition of rooms, forcing the students to sit in the open, sources said. They informed that the situation turns more pathetic during rains as there is no class work and students don't turn up. Apart from lack of rooms, the school premises have no complete boundary wall, which poses serious threat to students. "The school is nestled in woods. On one side there is a deep gorge, and if a student will slip from there, it can prove fatal as there is no boundary wall", sources said. They said the administration has done nothing to address the issues.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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