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Deepkamal Kaur

Tribune News Service

Gidderpindi (Jalandhar), September 2

Half-yearly examinations in the government schools are scheduled to start next Monday but the schools in the flood-affected village of Lohian are still to resume studies.

It has been more than two weeks since a majority of schools here were closed down. There are at least six schools which are in such a bad condition that it may take nearly a week for them to restart. The remaining schools, which got working on Friday, have much less attendance.

One of the worst affected schools is Government Middle School at Bara Yodh Singh, where two parallel boundary walls collapsed. The pavement at the entrance gate was washed away and it is still not possible to enter the premises.

Another school which has been badly hit in floods is Government Senior Secondary School at Mundi Cholian village. Even today, there was so much muck all around that it was extremely difficult to even walk around. As a teacher, villagers and boys began to clean up the mess with spades and wipers, it clearly did not seem to be an easy task. Computer sets of the school had remained immersed in floodwater for 12 days. Also, all books in the library have been damaged.

Kulwinder Singh, a teacher, said: “We were told that it would take six hours for floodwater to reach here. We had barely gathered important files related to the school and shifted them to a safe place when water came gushing here because of a breach in the bundh nearby. We could not save anything else. We may have to hire labour and get fogging done in the entire compound before opening the school. We really do not know if we will be in a condition to make children appear for the examinations next week.”

Gursewak Singh, a Class X student, who is to take board examinations this year, said: “All my books have been spoiled. I was at my relative’s place and have just come back. Leave apart the loss of studies, I will also have to buy new books and complete notebooks again”.

Deputy Commissioner Varinder K Sharma said: “We have asked all schools to start classes at the earliest. We have also asked them to make an assessment of losses incurred.”

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