THELIGHTOFANDAMANS: Students Demand Basic Amenities

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Students Demand Basic Amenities

THE LIGHT OF ANDAMANS | VOL: 35 | ISSUE: 26 | 03 FEBRUARY 2012

Students Demand Basic Amenities

On 9th January 2012 and again after a week later, the students of Boys School staged dharnas protesting inaction from the Administration for not redressing their demands. They had raised the demand for a playground, multipurpose hall, parking shed, drinking water and toilet facilities.

The Director of Education agreed to consider the demands and issued a response.

On the instruction of the Principal Secretary, Education, the Principal TGCE was instructed to make open the closed gate between Boys School and GDMS School and give the students of Boys School access to the canteen. The APWD was instructed to remove the temporary structures in the compound and develop the area as playground. Speaking to LOA, R Devdas, Director of Education said that the playground is already there in the last plan and will be pursued and completed in 2012.

On multipurpose hall, Director informed that construction of a new auditorium is not possible. A decision regarding providing the already completed TGCE hall to Boys School is under consideration. However, the school authorities informed that the school has a combined strength of more than 1200 students and the 200-seater auditorium cannot serve any purpose. The Alumni members informed LOA that there is enough space near the existing DEO office to construct a 2000 capacity multi-purpose auditorium.

The demand for drinking water and toilet facilities are also being looked into by APWD. However, the delay in the process as well as a new wall coming up between the campus of TGCE and Boys School had forced the students to strike the second time.

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The Light of Andamans’ was born out of the zeal and determination to fight against the suffocating Kafkaesque atmosphere on the society that existed even after 30 years of Independence under bureaucratic rule. It was a hangover of the ‘Raj’that extended much too long in the Islands.

The Light of Andamans’ was started in 1975. The paper had always been a crusader, taking up the causes that no other newspaper would touch. In doing so, it very often stepped on the toes of the authorities and had to face persecution in the form of denial of advertisements and numerous court cases against it. For a small stint, the publication came to a halt in 2003.

Gezira Publications Private Limited took over the paper in the year 2005 and transferred the title in a bid to revive the second oldest newsmagazine from extinction and also to carry forward the mission.

The Newsmagazine, under the new management, has undergone a sea change both in form and content. It turned into a full-fledged tabloid with 10 pages with plenty of photographs making both pleasing to the eyes and soothing for the mind. “It has acquired a position where it influences the policies in vital matters concerning the development of the islands, protection of aboriginal tribes and addressing the problems of the disadvantaged groups. The newsmagazine is known and appreciated for its bold, free, fair and balanced reporting.”

Late Govinda Raju and his team worked very hard to rebuild the reputation, goodwill and a healthy new image of the newsmagazine brick by brick. After the demise of Mr Raju in 2010, the magazine is now being edited by Zubair Ahmed and published by Basudev Dass. The newsmagazine continues its mission of highlighting policy issues pertaining to the Islands.