Regular classes at Tsirang Toe Central School will begin only tomorrow. The classes had to be delayed as the construction of new buildings at the school was incomplete.
The new constructions include an integrated academic block, which houses 18 units of classrooms, and two staff quarters, two 18-bedded hostels and a multipurpose hall.
The school had to use the existing seven-unit classroom block as hostel to accommodate over 300 boarder students. The total number of students exceeds 600.
The school management has now decided to use the new hostels, which still require interior finishing and electricity supply, so that the old classrooms could be used to hold regular classes from tomorrow.
Until today, with the classrooms turned into hostel, corridors, open spaces, ground and the dining hall were used as temporary classrooms. Students were kept engaged in co-curricular activities, including driglam namzha sessions, as they waited for formal classes to begin.
The delay in the completion of the constructions, according to the Chief Dzongkhag Education Officer, Sangay Chophel, is because the works could not begin as soon as the contract was awarded in 2016.
That’s because required demolition works could not be carried out since some of the old buildings were in use at the time.
The Chief DEO added that all new structures and other works, including site development, would be completed and handed over to the school by the end of this month.
The school was upgraded to a Central School this year. It takes in students from primary schools of five gewogs.
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