Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 27:
Though there are only 43 Government Higher Secondary Schools in the State, matters have come to light, that the State Planning Department has submitted a fabricated report to the Joint Secretary of DONER, Dr Hari Krishna, stating that two class rooms each have been constructed in 115 Higher Secondary Schools from the Non Lapsable Pool of Resources.
What is more pathetic is the fact that even in some of the actually existing 43 Higher Secondary schools, construction work of the class rooms have not been completed at all.
Disclosing this to The Sangai Express, a well placed source said that the report was submitted to the DONER Joint Secretary who arrived here yesterday to get a first hand account of the work progress taken up under the Non Lapsable Pool of Resources.
The official has also started personally inspecting the schools, where the class room construction works are reported to have been completed.
According to the report submitted to the DONER official, the State Government recieved Rs 2.15 crore from the Non Lapsable Pool in 1999-2000 for building two class rooms each in the 43 Higher Secondary schools.
Apart from reporting that construction work of the class rooms have been completed in 115 Higher Secondary Schools, the State Government also submitted that construction work is underway in 58 other Higher Secondary Schools.
Based on the report of the Planning Department, The Sangai Express conducted a survey of the schools, where the construction work of the class rooms have been reportedly completed.
However during the survey it was found that in some schools, the construction work had not progressed beyond the first phase.
Some Principals informed that the construction work of the class rooms are yet to be completed and added that the work would be completed this month as the funds have arrived.
Some schools had taken the task of completing the construction work of the class rooms as the State Government had failed to release the funds on time.
The report submitted to the DONER official also mentioned that of the 27 Government colleges, where 32 class rooms are to come up, 23 class rooms have already been constructed while the work progress is on in 3 others.