Leave alone the residential colonies in the Old City – where heaps of garbage is a regular scene, the schools too are not safe enough from the reeking trash, and in some cases, it has been found right in front of the gates while the GHMC keep turning a blind eye towards the stinking threat to the health of the students.
Let’s take a look at a pathetic hygienic and malodorous condition of a High School in Jahanuma under Jangammet division under Chandrayangutta constituency wherein students have to live through the heaps of garbage right in front of the gate everyday while forced to bear suffocating foul smell inside the school due to overflow of sewage from bathrooms and as well as the manhole inside the premises.
A narrow passage between the office of ACP Falaknuma on the right-hand side and Rythu Market on the left is the only passage to enter the school premises that further leads to a densely populated colony called Moti Galli.
The school accommodates separate Higher and Primary sections for the students of both Telugu and Urdu Medium. Apart from a Telugu and Urdu Medium High School in a separate quarter, the building also accommodates a Primary School Kalvagadda and a Girls Primary School Jangammet that together has a strength of over thousand students.
Apart from the traders of the Rythu market – who said to have been throwing the discarded veggies right in front of the school gate on daily basis, the local people too are using this place as dump yard that resulted into piling up of filth at a very site of the gate thereby turning the entry point of the school into an unwholesome spot besides producing an unbearable stinking smell.
Students have to pass over the piled-up garbage to enter the school every day while the sewage overflowing from the manhole inside the premises keeps on flowing right all the way from inside the school to the lane leading down the road.
Cherry on the top is the ACP office Falaknuma that stands next to the school with a common wall but the police took no pain to address the pathetic and stinking issue despite the fact that it causes a threat to the life of the students especially during the winter season.
The school authorities, on the other hand, are washing their hands from the issue simply by saying that they have made several representations to GHMC, the local Corporator and the MRO regarding the unhygienic condition both inside and outside of the school but to no-avail.
“Heaps of trash outside the premises greets the students almost everyday while they have to put up with the stink inside the school due to lack of proper sanitary measures. Except for some temporary measures like removing the trash from in front of the gate, no concrete steps have been taken neither by the GHMC nor the local Corporator to resolve the issue permanently,” informed a teacher.
“An obsolete electric pole, standing in front of the school gate too poses a threat to the life of the students as it was almost worn out from the bottom and may fall with a slightest blow of the wind anytime,” said another teacher.
