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| November 22, 2005 | Tuesday | Shawwal 19, 1426 |
Fresh survey of dangerous school buildings
LAHORE, Nov 21: A fresh survey to figure out the number of dangerous public school buildings has been initiated by the education department. The buildings of 4,891 public schools were found to be dangerous in the previous survey completed in the middle of this year under the education reforms programme of the Punjab government. However, no measures have been taken by the authorities concerned to ensure the safety of the students who are studying in these buildings.
A senior officer of the education department told Dawn on Monday that 50 per cent work on the new survey launched last month had been completed.
He said after the completion of the survey, new structures would be raised after dismantling the existing ones. He said the department was reluctant to come up with a plan in the light of the findings of the previous survey as several school buildings which were not dangerous were made part of the list to gain financial benefits. “The new survey will help portray the exact picture,” he added.
Sources said the government had initiated the previous survey in 2003 and on its findings it was to build new structures of the dangerous school buildings within a period of two years. They said that most of the school buildings declared dangerous had been built before partition.
There are 282 dangerous school buildings in Rahim Yar Khan, 275 in Shiekhupura, 244 in Rawalpindi, 242 in Faisalabad, 236 in Jhang, 209 in Sialkot, 203 in Mianwali, 117 in Attock, 170 in Bahawalnagar, 174 in Bahawalpur, 154 in Bhakkar, 53 in Chakwal, 201 in D G Khan, 170 in Gujranwala, 123 in Gujrat, 65 in Hafizabad, 74 in Jhelum, 125 in Kasur, 80 in Khanewal, 89 in Khushab, 107 in Lahore, 146 in Layyah, 58 in Lodhran, 73 in Mandi Bahauddin, 87 in Multan, 157 in Narowal, 180 in Okara, 42 in Pakpattan, 129 in Rajanpur, 47 in Sahiwal, 183 in Sargodha, 92 in Toba Tek Singh and 52 in Vehari district. Besides, as many as 9,491 schools in the province require complete and 29,208 partial repairs.
There are over 63,000 public schools, including the primary, secondary and higher secondary, in the Punjab.
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