Although the government has decided to resume all the schools in the earthquake affected districts from May 17, fate of around 88,000 remains uncertain as school buildings have been completely been destroyed.
As per the preliminary report of the District Education Office (DEO) Sindhupalchowk, 90 per cent of the community school buildings collapsed in the quake." "The report includes the damage of school buildings as of Tuesday, and it may increas"," said Assistant District Education Officer Sewant Raj Koirala.
According to DEO Sindhupalchowk, 383 of total 557 school buildings have been completely destroyed in the earthquake. There were altogether 4,113 classrooms in these school buildings.
Likewise, most parts of 174 school buildings have been damaged. Though some classrooms can be repaired in those schools, 1,566 rooms have turned into rubble.
The DEO informed that the office has already collected the details reports of the damage in 208 schools. The remaining damage will also be figured out soon by deploying the DEO's mechanism, said Assistant DEO Koirala.
Most of those, among the damaged schools, are in the western parts of Melamchi area.
A total of 848 primary and secondary schools were in the operation in Sindhupalchowk. There were a total of 87,947 students enrolled in these schools.
Likewise, 2,124 teachers were working in these schools. However, the DEO does not have any record of teachers appointed through private resources.
16 school teachers die
As per the reports received as of Tuesday, a total of 16 school teachers have died in the earthquake" "Details of the deceased teachers have yet to arrive, while search for the missing is still under wa"," Assistant DEO Koirala said. Most of the deceased teachers were female, he further informed.
Meanwhile, School Management Committee (SMC) of Ratna Ganga higher secondary school located in the district headquarters Chautara has decided to reopen from May 17. It has taken such a decision even as the school's buildings have been completely destroyed in the earthquake. "
"We'll run classes at Chautara multiple camp"s," said SMC chairperson Kulbir Singh.
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