Kanchanpur, Jan 28 : The Saraswati Secondary School at Shuklaphanta Municipality-11 in the district is forced to run classes in two shifts- morning and day- for lack of physical infrastructures. To manage students’ pressure, the classes are divided in two shifts.
The forestry science, and classes of Grade 11 and 12 are run in morning from 6 am to 10 am, and Grades 1 to 10 in day from 10 am to 4 pm, said the school management committee Chairperson, Dil Bahadur Budha.
Out of the total 11 buildings, two have been used for a boarding facility. There are 22 rooms in the remaining nine buildings, and of them, 10 rooms are used for other purposes like as computer lab, library, laboratory, store room, day meal management room and staff rooms, he said, adding that remaining 12 rooms and other four rooms from the boarding facility have been used as classrooms.
Children pursuing child development courses, who are supposed to be in three separate classrooms due to their large number, are crammed in a classroom, he said. The school has the total 734 students. There are a few classrooms on a par with the ratio of students.
“We are forced to run classes in two shifts for want of required number of classrooms and workforce,” said the school’s officiating Principal Ganesh Bahadur Bista. The school is planning to add six classrooms from the next academic session, he said, adding that they urged the municipality to provide required budget for the same.
It is also running short of budget to carry out other managerial works like providing salaries to teachers who are employed on relief and private quotas, the management of toilets and drinking water taps, he said. Established in 2042 BS, the school has six teachers on a relief quota, and some other Grades 11 and 12 teachers are hired from private sources, he said.
