This school in RU premises has only 2 teachers

JAIPUR: In 1979, a school was opened in the premises of Rajasthan University to provide free education to the students. The school, which once had eight teachers, is being run by just two teachers at present. One of which is going to retire on June 30.
There are around 150 students enrolled in the school and four teachers are teaching them out of which two are teaching after retirement. There are not even a peon working full time for the school except one temporary worker who is working there since 2006. According to principal of the school Prabha Sharma, there was not even a girls toilet in the school until few years back and even the building was in a dilapidated condition until it was renovated by former vice-chancellor J P Singhal.

Sharma said, “The building was in ramshackle condition and water used to come inside. We have gone to a nearby slum areas to ask parents to send their children in the school. However, when there are no computers, no water cooler in summers, not enough teachers and not even a telephone, how will we convince parents to send their children? We even arranged for the donation of room fans for the class rooms as the fans fixed by the university had stopped working. The school is in a sorry state and once when 300 students were studying here, now just 150 students are left.”

Few months back Ram Chandra Bohra, MLA granted Rs 15 lakh for the development of the school but the money is yet to be sanctioned by the government. Former Vice chancellor of the university Dev Swarup two year back started a bus service on the request of the school teachers so that the students from far away areas can even attend. According to the sources even the bus drivers payments is stuck for many months and many letters were sent to the administration but nothing has been done.

Bhupendra Shingh Shekhawat, public relation officer of the university said that the teachers will be appointed by the state government and application have been dispatched and appointments are expected to be done very soon. “We have planned to construct more rooms with the money granted and soon the construction will start. We are trying our best to work in the interest of the students,” said Shekhawat.