Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Na­pari­ma, Rod­ney Charles, is call­ing on the Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion, Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly, to work quick­ly to­wards hav­ing is­sues im­pact­ing the Re­form Hin­du School re­solved, as soon as pos­si­ble.

The Na­pari­ma MP al­so wants Min­is­ter Gads­by-Dol­ly to “ad­dress the ma­jor prob­lem, which is that the ad­ja­cent new school that was left 95% com­plete in 2015, is now aban­doned and in­com­plete due to non-pay­ment to the con­trac­tors for works al­ready com­plet­ed”.

In cor­re­spon­dence to the Min­is­ter on the mat­ter, com­plete with pho­tos high­light­ing flood­ing at the school’s premis­es, the Na­pari­ma MP ex­plains that the re­cent flood­ing episode has ham­pered prepa­ra­tions to have the school up-and-run­ning for the new school term.

“I wish to draw your at­ten­tion to the plight of par­ents, teach­ers and pupils of the Re­form Hin­du School lo­cat­ed in the con­stituen­cy of Na­pari­ma,” the MP wrote. “The en­tire school is cur­rent­ly flood­ed due to the heavy rain­fall and this is sig­nif­i­cant­ly af­fect­ing prepa­ra­tion by teach­ers for the re­sump­tion of class­es next week. The prob­lem is fur­ther ex­ac­er­bat­ed by poor drainage works done re­cent­ly in the vicin­i­ty of the school.”

MP Charles re­mind­ed the Min­is­ter that the school’s stu­dents cur­rent­ly are housed tem­porar­i­ly “in cramped con­di­tions at a near­by tem­ple”, which is a ma­jor dis­ad­van­tage to them.

“Re­form Hin­du school is one of the many high per­form­ing ones in the con­stituen­cy based on stan­dard­ized scores and every ef­fort should be made to en­sure that stu­dents are not un­du­ly dis­ad­van­taged,” he urged.

He added: “While some teach­ers may be able to do on­line teach­ing prepa­ra­tions for class­es at home, oth­ers need to be at the school where in­ter­net fa­cil­i­ties are avail­able to ex­pe­dite nec­es­sary on­line prepa­ra­tions.”