Education dept takes U-turn on Velimanna school upgrade

Kozhikode | Monday | 23rd July, 2018

Summary:

The nearest aided higher secondary school, St.

Mary’s Higher Secondary School, Koodathayi, is 5 km away, and the nearest government higher secondary school, Government Higher Secondary School, Karuvanpoyil, in Koduvally muncipality, is 8 km away. Holy Family High School, Venappara, another high school in the panchayat, is 10 km away. If the school is upgraded as a high school this academic year, classes could be held in the five new classrooms, the construction of which was then in the final stages. But the single judge directed the department to upgrade the school on humanitarian grounds, while dismissing 133 similar pleas to upgrade schools from across the State. The report also cited the resolutions passed by the grama panchayat and the Kozhikode district panchayat seeking upgrading of the school..