A proper system for dealing with issues relating to school infrastructure is currently lacking but the Education Ministry is working to rectify this, Minister Shaik Baksh said yesterday.
Meeting with parents at the Philadelphia Primary School who had protested the state of the school two weeks ago, Baksh acknowledged that the issues that they had raised were legitimate but said that the Ministry had no direct responsibility for school infrastructure. This falls under the various regional administrations. However, the Ministry will be hiring two engineers who will do a condition survey of every school, the Minister said.
Repairs have started at the school after the parents protested, citing the crumbling foundation pillars and the deplorable sanitary