Kochi: The Kerala Child Rights Commission once again emphasized the need to ensure total fitness and safety on the school campus before welcoming children to the place.
The commission made this observation while issuing direction to local bodies to see more than just a fitness of the building structure.
The Commission has instructed the local body to see various other problems that could be dangerous for the students who came, after the long-term Covid Close-Down.
The commission issued direction to local agencies while hearing the Suo Motu case following the media report that the waste from the market flowed to the drainage next to the AUP school office room, Kunnamangalam.
Drain only 100 m from the school office hall.
Member of Commission K Nazeer and B Babitha visited the school to check the place during this case hearing.
The child’s rights panel says that the local body must issue a fitness or NOC certificate only if they follow all the rules and guidelines that have been issued by the government.
“During our interaction with various district authorities, it has been known by us that the local body only checks building fitness and issues a fitness certificate,” observed.
In this school case, it was found that waste from roadside and other areas and market places flowed to drainage next to the school.
This drainage flows next to the school building.
This sustainable waste stream also stagnates around its surrounding environment for students and health of buildings.
The local authorities must check these problems and help find a solution for that, the Commission said.
It asked the secretary of Panchayat Kunnamangalam and also the Indian National Highway Authority (NHAI) engineer to find a solution to this problem.
This happens because Nhai changes the direction of the drainage flow.
Previously, following the increase in the number of students who came to school, the education department had decided to provide a temporary fitness certificate to school with roofs made of tin and asbestos.