SUKKUR, Oct 5 Schools in the city reopened on Monday after remaining closed for more than four months.

According to a survey condition of many schools, which served as relief camps for flood victims, is not up to mark.

The schools were to reopen on August 1 after a two-month summer vacation. The internally displaced persons from Jacobabad, Kashmore and Shikarpur districts started coming to Sukkur from the first week of August and were accommodated in the government school buildings and colleges besides tents at open places.

In schools and colleges, where IDPs were staying, concerned staff was deployed to look after both the IDPs and the building structures.

Initially, the IDPs were provided cooked meals. But when the district administration and other agencies distributed dry ration among them, they started cooking meals on their own in these buildings.

Being short of money, the IDPs started breaking school furniture and using it as burning wood and the teachers and in-charge of the relief camps found them helpless, because the IDPs were not ready to listen to them.

Requesting anonymity, a teacher of the Government Modern High School, said that on some occasions the IDPs quarrelled among themselves and threw chairs on each others and damaged the furniture.

They also damaged the flooring of the school by cooking meals, he added.

EDO Education Sukkur Jay Ram Das said that the department was conducting a survey of such schools and hoped that the survey would be completed within three days. He said not only furniture, but at some places, the IDPs had also damaged the school buildings.

However, he said that after the survey they would write to high ups seeking permission for necessary repair and maintenance work of the damaged structures.