SIALKOT, Dec 22: The pre-partition Government Boys High School at Kundanpur on the Sialkot-Jammu Road has been facing multiple problems for well over a decade now due to alleged negligence of the government.

The institute was established at border-area Kundanpur village as a boys primary school in 1944 to facilitate children of several villages. It was upgraded to the middle level in 1952.

Its building was ravaged during the 1965 war after which only three of its rooms remained usable. Subsequently, the then government constructed another building for this school in 1975. According to the locals, the building collapsed owing to the use of substandard material in its construction.

However, in 1987, the school was rebuilt and upgraded to high level and the government constructed two more classrooms for properly running it. But unfortunately two of the classroom again collapsed.

Now run-down classrooms and a veranda are all about school, which is even without a boundary wall. Cattle move freely on the campus. More than 1,000 students are forced to study here under the sky even in extreme weather conditions.

The condition of the three classrooms show that they can come down any time, thus posing a serious threat to the lives of the teachers and students. On the academic side, the school has been functioning without science teacher since its upgrade in 1987. There are only three PTC teachers for all the primary classes while several posts of teachers have been lying vacant for long.

In 2004, the district government planned to construct it at a cost of Rs2.5 million and tenders were called for the project. But, it was dropped all of a sudden due to the reasons best known to the authorities concerned.

Residents of Kundanpur and several surrounding villages have strongly protested against the slackness of the education department and urged District Nazim Mian Naeem Javed and DCO Syed Tahir Raza Naqvi to look into the matter. When contacted, the officials at the helm declined to comment.