Daijiworld Media Network - Gadag (SP)

Gadag, Jun 27: It is well known that students have to carry books, notebooks, pen, pencil etc when attending their classes. However there is a school which has made it compulsory for its students to also bring a bucket when coming to school. 

This is Morarji Desai residential school located at Kalakaleshwara village in Gajendragad taluk of this district. Here, the students are more worried about water than their lessons. They spent more time waiting for water than reading and writing. Even though these children are facing difficult times, the social welfare department has turned a blind eye to their problems. 

The children of this school have read in newspapers that when the chief minister goes on village stay, the schools where his stay is arranged are provided in advance with basic facilities. But the residential school referred above has no water as all the three bore wells of the school have gone dry. Even after a month since the school reopened, no official has come forward to solve water problem. Everyday water tanker is brought to the school. The children have to collect this water in their buckets and then attend the classes, a student of the school, Manjunath, confessed. 

As of now, 239 students are studying in this residential school. Over ten staff members too function here. But they do not have any basic amenities, which is agonizing, said another student, Aishwarya. 

The government spends crores of rupees for the education of poor children. It also adds new residential schools each year by releasing grant. Either because of the apathy of the officials or their greed, this grant does not appear to be spent judiciously. Therefore, the children do not get proper facilities. One hopes that this problem will end soon.