DEHRADUN: The clamour for saving the 'KV FRI' school is building up and on Friday, the school students took to the social media to plead the prime minister, Narendra Modi to take note of their plight and save the school.The school premises reverberated with the sound of the kids shouting, 'Modiji humare school ko bachao' (please save our school) while their parents came to pick them up as school closed for the day by afternoon."Respected Modi sir, please save our school-KV FRI from shutting down.Our school won the cleanest school premises in the country award recently and was acknowledged by you and it is one of the best schools in the city as well. We hope our parents , former students and you are able to save it" said Palchin Bhenwal, a class 5 student.Meanwhile, Vijay Giri Goswami, a parent who is spearheading the campaign to save the school said, " Students urged the prime minister live on Facebook to help out in saving the school. The only problem is of funds crunch since the funding by ICFRE has come down to merely 24 percent this year leaving the school with lack of funds to run smoothly for long"Another concerned parent, Mohammad Salim said, "We intend to fight till the very end to save the school. In fact, over 400 of the 1400 parents have already joined hands to support in this fight. We are active on social media to garner more support"There was a notice stuck outside the school gates stating, 'No fresh admission in class I and VI in the academic session 2017-18 commencing from April 1. The school is liable to withdraw the classes in a phased manner because of administrative reasons.'Meanwhile, another post hung on a tree in front of the school, it read--'KV FRI Parents help desk' and it had few contact numbers urging parents to join hands to save the school.The former students and parents are meeting on a regular basis every morning and afternoon to devise more ways to save the school.'Meanwhile, when TOI got in touch with Somit Shrivastav, deputy commissioner, KVS Dehradun region, he said, "FRI has written a letter to commissioner KVS seeking conversion of the school from project sector to civil sector. Subject to decision by the KVS headquarters, accordingly things will be done. However, a decision is yet to be taken by KVS whether or not it can be converted. We also want the matter to be addressed expeditiously"It is learnt that if the school is converted from a project sector school under ICFRE to a civil sector school under KVS, the expenses of running it will be borne by the Central government. But, officials cite this also depends if FRI is willing to give the present infrastructure and land on lease to the KVS.Meanwhile, it is learnt by some alumni that the ministry of human resource development taking note of their pleas and pressure by some politicians, have also communicated with the ministry of environment and forest and climate change (MoEF) to help in sorting out the issue.

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