Nagpur: As the initial euphoria above rises back school settled, financial reality after all sanitation soups about certain schools hard.
Schools that are fully helpful and those who are called ‘budget’ schools now find themselves struggling to spend money to clean the place according to the given guidelines.
The school guardian, which manages Marathi Middle School, said, “We receive a salary grant from the state of the government, which means the costs cannot be charged from students.
There is no additional grant that comes for Covid’s related work.
So, how we will fund this.” Trustees do not want to be identified, do not face flak from educational officials.
“By 2020, when we were all reopened for the first time, many schools got a free five-liter cleaning can.
In the rural areas it comes from Zilla Parishad funds and in the city, it might be directed through several NGOs.
But that’s what always happens, we Start with all facilities but with time everything is forgotten, “said the trustee of the small room must be disanitized and not only cleaned, according to previous practices.
The reality is that the majority of rural schools that survive on government grants or included in the budget category are cutting angles.
A principal said, “In 2020, when Tamaram Munde was Commissioner of Nagpur City, we had a webinar where various problems were discussed.
In that case, a school principal asked him whether the school sanitation costs would be borne by the government or not, and Munde did not Committed to all funds.
In fact, as I remember, he clearly said that sanitation costs were not high so they could be easily managed by the school.
“The ‘managing’ is the problem, say school.
“We cannot charge fees.
So, how will we fund daily sanitation costs?” Said the subject of a Hindi Middle School in North Nagpur.
“My teacher’s salary was paid by the government but no one came to sanitation.
We collected their own money and conduct sanitation, but then only done in classrooms and not all over the place,” said the principal.