Students shiver in colleges

FARZANA SYED. Dated: 12/4/2017 1:44:53 PM

Students facing immense inconvenience due absence of heating arrangements

SRINAGAR, Dec 3: Where as colleges across Kashmir valley are continuing with the routine academic activities, the lack of heating arrangements in classrooms has pushed the students to huge inconvenience.
A delegation of students revealed that owing to cold weather conditions the students were shivering in classrooms every day. However, there were no heating facilities available to them in chilling cold conditions.
Kashmir valley has been reeling under immense cold wave for the past few weeks. Though the winter vacations up to Class 12th started from December 3, as per the government orders, however there has not been any announcement for winter break in higher education institutions yet.
The students said that the attendance in the classes was also declining as students prefer to stay at home to save themselves from severe cold conditions in classrooms.
They said the authorities should either close down the colleges or provide them heating facilities so that they were not forced to shiver in cold conditions.
"We have to attend classes everyday but we do not have any facility of heating available in classrooms. Our class rooms freeze with cold but nothing is being done on the part of authorities. We have to attend college in these cold conditions however there are no heating arrangements in classes," a group of students from GDC for women MA Road, here said.
Many students from other colleges said the window panes of their classrooms were broken which added to their woes by intensifying winter chill.
They said very often most of the students catch health ailments due to immense cold conditions in classrooms. They said the cold was adversely affecting their health also.
"Because we have to stay in cold conditions, in our classrooms students often catch health disorders like fever, flue, acute headache, chest infection, severe cold. With the result not many students feel like attending the college, students from Sri Pratap College said.
"It is not possible to bear the cold, therefore, we are always in a hurry to leave college students also leave their classes to go home earlier, " a group of students from Arts stream revealed.
They said, "We shiver in our classes. If it is not possible for the authorities to provide sophisticated heating gadgets they can at least afford to make coal bukharis available in classrooms. I don't think the authorities cannot even afford that."
The faculty members in a local college in the city said it was the responsibility of higher authorities to provide heating arrangements to the students.
"Government should definitely provide heating arrangements to students. Students are attending their classes in immense cold conditions which is miserable," said Prof Deeba, faculty member at a local college in Srinagar.
When contacted a senior official at the department of higher education said there were no orders of providing heating facilities in classrooms from the govt.
He said, "Students deserve heating facilities in classrooms if they have to attend classes in cold however the arrangements have to be made available by government only".

 

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