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MAPUSA
The management of the oldest school in Mapusa, Dnayanprasarak Vidyalaya has remained adamant and appears to be waiting for a direction from the education department, even as third billboard of the mobile company made its way to the roof of the school.
Headmaster Gurudas Palkar disclosed that initially he had advised the management that the billboards were on the school premises and had to be removed.
“They have said it’s not on school premises, not on the place rented to the school. It’s on the other place. If at all there is something let it come from the (education) department. Then a suitable decision can be taken,” Palkar said.
The headmaster said that the school was not involved, as the advertising billboards were not on the premises of the school.
“The entire building belongs to the Vaishya Mandal. They have given us four class rooms on rent. The advertisements are not on the premises we have taken on rent,” Palkar said taking pains to defend the management.
But in a contradictory statement, the headmaster said nobody knows how much part belongs to the school and how much belongs to the Vaishya Mandal.
“It looks like it’s on school premises. It is a school building but that particular portion (where the advertisement is fixed) does not belong to the school. We have not taken that on rent,” Palkar said.
In the meanwhile, a section of the management and members of the earlier managing committee expressed disgust at the way things were going on.
“It’s totally wrong. I strongly objected to the move of erecting the advertising billboards on the school,” said Kiran Shirodkar, who was a treasurer of Dnyanprasarak Vidyalaya for 16 years.
He said it was primarily an institution imparting education and not a money-making organization.
Meanwhile, sources informed that one of the members of the management has pocketed Rs 50,000 to crack the deal with the mobile company.
