TG: Profile of a popular school with inadequate infrastructures
Source: Hueiyen News Service

Imphal, July 29 2013: With TG Higher Secondary School admitting excess number of students that its actual capacity following instructions from the Education Minister to admit every student seeking admission in the school, the students are today facing a whole lot of problems due to poor infrastructural facilities.

It has been reported that with the Education Minister giving strict instructions to the authorities of Government Higher Secondary Schools to admit every single student coming to seek admission, the students are encountering problems in all aspects, right from attending classes to using the toilets.

The students are finding it hard to sit in the class as the desk and benches cannot accommodate all the students.

To make things work, 5 to 6 students have been made to seat together on one desk.

Moreover, those students at the back benches of the congested room could hardly hear what the teachers are explaining nor could they see what are being written on the black/white boards.

The number of students admitted in TG Higher Secondary School this year is 2516 as compared to 1283 students last year.

There has been a tremendous increase in the intake of students this year without considering the basic infrastructures which could hold the admitted students.

In all the three streams i.e.Arts, Science and Commerce, the classes have been divided into different sections with the largest number of sections in Science stream (9 sections).

Arts stream has two sections while Commerce stream has only one section.

Even though the number of students has increased, the number of classrooms still remains the same and the teachers of the school have themselves constructed a different room for conducting classes.

Even the school hostel which has been constructed and left incomplete is now in the process of converting into another class room.

There are at present 1760 students in the Science stream who are opting Physics, Chemistry and Biology as their main subjects.

But there is only a single practical room for each subject.

As such, the students get not more than one day in a week to have their practical classes.

If there is bandh or general strike, then the students hardly get a day in a month for practical classes.

One of the most disgusting parts of the whole scenario is that in a school of over 2516 students, there are only four toilets in the school and both the teachers and the students use the toilets together.

And since the number of students is large, the students are seen lining up in queues to go to the toilets.

DESAM along with the Principal of TG Higher Secondary School and a team of media persons inspected the present condition of the school and interacted with the students today.

During the interaction, the students poured out their grievances and informed that even after various complaints made to the State Government, no action has been taken up so far and the students continue to suffer from lack of necessary infrastructures.

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