Date:07/01/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/01/07/stories/2008010760890400.htm

Kerala

SIO completes work on school buildings

Staff Reporter

First student body in the State to take up construction of schools

Nellikkuthu school building opens today
Campaign to improve infrastructure at schools

MALAPPURAM: The Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO) will on Monday complete its first phase of building construction to accommodate the additional higher secondary and vocational higher secondary batches allotted to Malappuram district two months ago.

The SIO will become the first student body in the State to construct school buildings. The student body has constructed two school buildings and provided furniture to another school as part of its campaign to help students who did not gain admission to Plus Two courses owing to lack of infrastructure in the district’s Government higher secondary schools.

SIO office-bearers said here on Sunday that buildings had been constructed at Pallippuram Government Higher Secondary School, Mankada, and Government Higher Secondary School, Nellikkuthu.

Apart from the expenses involved, the SIO provided free service of 100 students for the building construction.

Chelakkodan Ayisha will inaugurate the school building at Nellikkuthu on Monday. Shaik Mohammed Karakunnu, assistant amir of the Jama’at-e-Islami, will hand over the building to the school authorities at the function. The new building at Mankada had already been handed over to the school authorities.

The student body also provided benches and desks required for a classroom at Government Higher Secondary School, Cheriyamundam. “We have also offered voluntary help for infrastructural work carried out at different schools under the parent-teacher associations,” said Jabir Anakkayam, public relations secretary of the SIO.

Most Government schools in the district lack sufficient infrastructure.