15,000 LP schools damaged in Assam flood: Severe blow to Assam educational infrastructure

Guwahati: Assam floods have caused major damages to the state and its people. Right from the houses of the thousands of villagers, to their paddy fields and livestock, everything has been swept away by the destructive flood. What is more disturbing is to see thousands of schools being submerged and damaged by the floodwaters.

Report states that around 15,000 lower primary schools across the state are damaged by the flood and this is, indeed, a major loss of the educational sector of Assam. Students studying in these fifteen thousand LP schools are today without a proper school and a proper class in the absence of their schools. At a time when the schools in Assam has ended its summer vacation and started the new classes from August 1^st, thousands of students are without a school and their study materials which is a matter of concern and great worry for all. Not only the students but their parents, teachers and even the Government of Assam too are at a major loss with the schools being damaged by the severe flood.

However, the situation is not in a better side for the schools which got spared from the flood ravages as hundreds of such schools are still being used as relief camps to give shelter to the homeless flood victims. Under such circumstances, classes in those schools-turned-relief camps too have not been started on the completion of the summer vacations.

Reportedly, 175 schools in Lakhimpur, 28 in Dibrugarh and several other schools across Assam are destroyed in the flood. Reports of hundreds of schools in Dhubri district reeling under the flood has also come.

In keeping with the recent damages to the schools, the teachers’ organization have demanded that the schools should be rebuilt along with which remunerations should also be handed out to the damaged schools within three months.

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