Nellore: In the hometown of municipal administration minister P. Narayana, most of the corporation run high schools in Nellore city have been functioning without sufficient classrooms, teaching staff, toilets, libraries and labs. Thanks to the members of the civic body belonging to both ruling party and opposition YSR Congress, they spend all their energies to bag contract works or to criticise each other and hardly pay any attention to the issues affecting the citizens of the city.
Unfortunately this is the tendency of the members irrespective of the parties ruling the corporation since its inception. The situation with respect to corporation high schools is such that a school at Venkateswarapuram in the city has been functioning with mere 6 classrooms for 800 students. Moreover there is no library, labs and even toilets, except a few for girls, in the high school. The school needs 10 more teachers in addition to the existing 15 teachers but there is no move from the corporation to fill the vacant posts.
Nellore city legislator Dr Anil Kumar Yadav has alleged that the conditions are more or less similar in most of the 12 high schools in his assembly segment. Referring to huge sums being spent for advertisements by the civic body for one programme or other, he felt that part of the expenditure is enough to improve the infrastructure in the school.
He said he has decided to develop the high school in Venkateswarapuram as a model school on his own with the help of friends before December this year to seek aid from philanthropists to give a facelift to all the civic body schools in his segment. He added that the Commissioner of the civic body Mr Dilli Rao has assured to extend his cooperation for his proposal.
