Hyderabad: Two hundred children of the Devnar School for the Blind are now being shifted from their dormitory to their college campus in Bansilalpet after water from the Musi Nala sewer — hit by Wednesday’s rain — flooded and submerged the entire ground floor of the school building.
The school has 480 boarders — and of them 125 girls and 75 boys will be moved to the campus, at first. But there is no electricity in the institute’s premises and clogged drain water continues to stagnate — sparking fears for the students’ safety. Which is why the officials are moving the students from their dorms in batches.
The children had to spend the entire Wednesday on first and second floors.
The ground floor has the chairman’s room and six classrooms, which were filled with five feet of drain water by 2.30 am early Wednesday.
As many as 50 boys, aged 8 to 13, stay on the ground floor and they had to be shifted upstairs around 1 am when the water reached a foot’s depth. Officials from the GHMC and law enforcement were called in and they stayed with the children all night.
Class X student Pavan Kalyan, 15, said: “I was sleeping on the first floor and the warden suddenly woke us up and told us that we had to stand at the stairs, so that the younger boys could climb up.”
The girls’ dormitory is on the first and second floors. Another student Akhilesh Verma said, “I have been staying in this school for 11 years and I have never witnessed such rain. Water from the drains had surfaced earlier too but it used to recede within a few hours.”
