Degree college runs from middle school building
Shariq Majeed

Nowshera (Rajouri), February 20
Government Degree College, Nowshera, has been functioning from a building of a government middle school here, thanks to the indifferent attitude of the government.

This college, which was announced by the previous Congress-led coalition government along with about 40 such colleges in the state, was one among the long list of achievements that the Congress focused on during the recently held Assembly elections.

As the government degree college is functioning from one of the three buildings of the government middle school, not only are the students of the middle school suffering due to inadequate number of classrooms but the students of the college are also finding themselves out of place.

"Three are eight rooms in our school, but since the college authorities have occupied four rooms for running the college, we are facing the shortage of space. We have eight classes in our school, but there are just three classrooms left as one of the rooms is being used as staff room. Thus, the students of classes I to V have to sit in veranda during rainy season and in the open during sunny days,” said Shoket Ahmed, a student of fifth standard.

Amit Kaur, a student of BA-I of the college, said, “Though we are happy that the government has set up this college, we feel that it should have provided adequate infrastructure”. “Sometimes we feel that there is not much difference between us and the students of the middle school and find ourselves out of place.”

A teacher of the school said though there was a shortage of classrooms, they would have to bear with the problem as the college was set up by the government and they could not go against it.

Asked why the college is running from a middle school building and why didn't the government provide adequate infrastructure, ND Wani, director, colleges, said, "This is a new college".