Cuttack, April 7: Orissa High Court has fixed April 25 for hearing on how the state government plans to provide permanent buildings to all primary schools with inadequate classrooms.

The hearing was scheduled to be held on Monday, but the court postponed it without providing any specific reason.

The state government had also failed to file the required affidavit. The court had fixed April 4 as deadline after advocate general S.P. Mishra on March 17 assured to file a detailed affidavit giving the exact timeframe for providing various facilities in the schools, including appointment of teachers.

The bench of Chief Justice Vineet Saran and Justice B.R. Sarangi had directed the state government to "provide in detail the number of schools which do not have permanent buildings and what steps have been taken by the government for providing permanent buildings in the said schools".

"The government shall also provide details with regard to the class of teachers who are working in the government primary schools. Details with regard to students who are enrolled as well as the number of children in the age group 6-14 shall be provided," the court had specified in its March 17 order.

The high court has been hearing a PIL to achieve 100 per cent literacy in elementary education in the state. Taking note of a media report, the high court had suo motu registered the PIL and appointed advocate Prafulla Kumar Rath as amicus curiae.

Initiating the PIL proceedings on August 25 last year, the court had observed that the children are to be traced and brought back to school. It had further decided to "monitor continuously" the required coordination between several departments "as a mission of achieving 100 per cent literacy among children of 6 years of age and above".