Cuttack: The parents' association of Kendriya Vidyalaya-2 organised a motorcycle rally and staged dharna after submitting a memorandum to the district administration on Monday as part of its agitation over demand of land for permanent building of the school.
Starting from the school within the precincts of Government Press at Nuapada-Madhupatna, the rally by nearly 100 parents in motor cycles, ended at the Collectorate.
Parents submitted a memorandum addressing the Prime Minister and Union minister for human resource development to the collector.
"As the collector was not present sub collector Raghuram Iyer received the memorandum and assured to put it up before the collector," association general secretary Anil Kumar Samal said.
"We had planned to sit on an indefinite dharna near the school from Monday to press for our demands. But police gave permission for only one hour. So we staged our dharna as per the restrictions after submitting our memorandum," Samal said.Parents are irked over the delay in providing land for the permanent building of the school and opening of Class XI (Science).
The association has been demanding eight acres by the state government free of cost or at nominal lease rent for the construction of the school building. On February 26, the association had launched a sit-in protest outside the school for four hours and submitted a memorandum to the principal addressing the Governor through the Cuttack collector.The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) had started KV-II in a temporary asbestos roofed accommodation provided by the district administration on the premises of the Government Press at Nuapada-Madhupatna with Classes I to V in 2010. At present, it has classes from I to X with 550 students with two batches passing out in 2016 and 2017.
The association has demanded provision of five more class rooms adjacent to existing class rooms for starting of Class XI and XII (Science).As per the understanding, the district administration was to provide temporary accommodation till allotment of land for the school. According to the memorandum, the state government had earmarked eight acres for construction of the permanent building of the school at Nuapada Mouza in 2011.
