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The buses reserved for election duty in Morabadi on Sunday. Picture by Hardeep Singh
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Students of several schools will enjoy an extended summer vacation, courtesy the June 12 Hatia by-election.
Nearly 40 buses of various schools have been taken away by the Ranchi district administration for ferrying poll personnel and EVMs for the bypoll, forcing the cradles to defer resuming classes after the summer holidays. Most schools, which were supposed to reopen on June 11, will now do so on June 14. Some will welcome back the children on June 18.
A few schools that will reopen on June 14 are DAV Kapil Dev, Kadru; Jawahar Vidya Mandir, Shyamali; Bridgeford School; Kairali School; Gurunanak Higher Secondary School and St Xavier’s School among others.
An official of St Mary’s School informed that the district administration pulled out 10 of its 12 buses on Sunday. “We can start classes only after the buses are returned to us as otherwise, it will be very difficult to bring the students and then drop them back at their homes. We will reopen on June 14,” the official added.
CBSE-affiliated Kairali School will follow suit. “Our five buses were taken away on Saturday,” said principal Rajan Verghese.
Principal of Gurunanak Higher Secondary School Manohar Lal, however, rued that studies would be definitely affected as no classes will be held for three days. “We will try to make up by scheduling classes on every second Saturday of the months,” Lal said, adding that six out of 10 of their buses would serve election duty.
M.K. Sinha, principal of DAV Kapil Dev, said that they had to part with four of their six buses. Two vehicles have been kept to ferry students, who are taking special classes. “Our school will be used as an election booth and classes will resume only on June 18,” Sinha said.
St Xavier’s School will also open on June 18 instead of June 13.
Principal Ajit Khess said: “Ten buses were taken away on Sunday. Although teachers will start attending the school from June 13, students will come from June 18. One cannot deny that the extended holiday will take a toll on the academic calendar, but we cannot defy the district administration’s order. We will have to try and complete the syllabus by taking classes for six days a week instead of five,” he said.
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