Water taps be operating or functioning free from liquid or moisture overpending bills at sarkari schools in Telangana

Hyderabad: Non-payment of water bills has belonging to the political or intellectual left drinking HO taps in several government schools free from liquid or moisture. With the onset of summertime, students studying in Government Schools are struggling to quench their thirst in the schools. When tried to accomplish the knowledge acquired by learning department, they appear to be tight-lipped and a mute spectator. The Hans India cooperative unit visited a Government High School in Musheerabad and found that potable drinking HO taps are dried up as the direction failed to give money in exchange for goods or services the bills on clock. The state of affairs with not the same government schools in the urban center including Government High School -YMCA, Government High School– Trimulgherry , Chaderghat ,Rein Bazar , Shah Gunj and Yakutpura remains the same. Most of the schools HO bills are pending for the earlier than the present time two–three years and the amount is more than Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2 lakh.

According to Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE), a study of 2021-22 reveals that 30,023 government schools in Telangana out of 11,124 schools do not have got telephone tap HO amount of something available for use, while 1,859 schools have got no drinking HO. As per recent RTI reply to the petition reveals that upper limit schools in the territory and also in Hyderabad HO taps are non-functional.

On the stipulation of anonymity, the headmaster of Government High School , Secunderabad , said “Every summer we face drinking water issue and almost all the government schools has water taps connections but due to non-payment of water bills water connection has been disconnected. Our school has water filters and due to fund crunch we could not replace the collies and at present it is lying dysfunctional. Many times we have urged to education department regarding this issue and also requested to clear the bills but fell on deaf ears.”

“Recently from the education department, we have received an order that those schools do not have water connection where advice to purchase water boltless but in many schools, headmasters are not implementing. Keep in mind of the onset of summer we have advised our children to carry water bottles with them, said Ahmed Khan, teacher of Government High School, Yakutpura.

“This is not a unused or little used thing, for the earlier than the present time three years in my educational institution there is no HO amount of something available for use, closing year our headmaster have got placed a HO device that removes something small but at intermediate between past and future, it lying dysfunctional, so owed to this we are asked to bring in HO from our houses, said Rohan , social class 10 learner of Government High School Trimulgherry and same was quoted by Ramesh , social class 9 learner of Government High School , YMCA.

“Many schools in the city and as well as in the Districts that includes Sircilla, Medak and Nizamabad potable drinking water taps in government schools are non-functional. Even my recent RTI reply that I received in the month of November to the petition reveals that maximum schools in the district and also in Hyderabad, the water taps are non-functional and at present the situation is the same. It will better that officials of the education department actually review the government schools situation and ensure that all government schools have drinking water facilities and even proper water connection in washrooms which the government schools are lacking, as due to this students are facing hardship, said Robin Zaccheus , RTI activist.