Adilabad: Government schools, hostels and colleges have been at the receiving end of the state government’s plans to create new districts. Officials have identified existing government school and hostel buildings and taken them over to be used as new government offices to be set up in the new districts. Most of these school and hostels buildings that have been taken over by the officials are in and around the Mancherial town.
According to sources, the collectorate will be set up in the existing building of tribal ashram school of ITDA near Degree College, ZP CEO’s office in the ST boys’ hostel building, BC welfare office in the government BC integrated girls hostel, DEO office in Boys High School, ICDS project director office in Balasadan hostel and the Inter-board RIO office in the government degree college.
The treasury office will be set up in the ST boys’ hostels and employment office in the government ITI for boys. A majority of the existing government buildings that have been taken over by the district officials are educational institutions. There is no clarity whether the students will be adjusted in other hostels, schools, and colleges or accommodated in rented houses after they are evicted from these buildings.
There is also no clarity on the size of the portion that will be utilised for new offices in the existing selected educational buildings or if the entire buildings will be used for the purpose. District officials have selected school and hostel buildings in Nirmal town to set up government offices. In most cases, district officials involved in the creation of new district selected the existing buildings instead taking private buildings on rent for government offices in order to reduce expenditure. A senior government teacher said, “Educational institutions are getting disturbed. This is leading to students and their studies getting disturbed.”
