Jaipur: The dilapidated govt primary school in Rampura Kanwarpura near Jaipur, where a CJP team was attacked on Aug 21 during an inspection under its nationwide ‘School Thik Karo’ campaign, was demolished Wednesday to make way for a new building.The school, which has 26 students enrolled up to class 5, had been running from a buffalo shed in the village after its old building was declared unsafe and shut about a year ago. Classes have now been shifted to a local resident’s house until the new structure is built.The replacement building will be funded through Rs 18 lakh from the MLA Fund and is proposed to have two rooms and a washroom. School staff said Rs 12 lakh was sanctioned on Aug 15 and another Rs 6 lakh was later approved for the project. The old structure was brought down by 11 am Wednesday.“On Tuesday, we shifted all items from the school to a local resident’s house in the village from where the school is being operated now,” said a teacher from the school.Staff said villagers have assured the school administration that additional funds will be raised locally if required during construction. No official completion deadline has been announced yet, but school operations will continue from the resident’s house in the interim.“This school was originally built in 1985 and over the years the building structure got dilapidated. Now, the education department also has land rights for the area and with a new building, we are hopeful that enrolment of students will also increase,” the teacher said.The demolition comes less than a month after the Aug 21 violence in Rampura Kanwarpura, when a CJP team led by co-convener Ashutosh Ranka visited the school to “inspect” its condition as part of the ‘School Thik Karo’ campaign. The visit triggered a violent protest in which the team was attacked.On Wednesday, Ranka wrote on X: “This is the same school in Rampura that used to operate out of a buffalo shed. Work has now begun there. During the inspection, stones were thrown at us, women were assaulted, and vehicle windows were smashed. But once a good school is built for our children, it will all be worth it!”
