Jammu Govt school students forced to sit on mats amid cold wave, demand reading desks

Forced to sit on mats in icy cold weather, students of a Kathua-based government school on Monday urged the Jammu and Kashmir administration to provide them with reading desks and fix the broken windows of their school building.

The government primary school in Parnooh village in Banyari panchayat of Marheen tehsil has no desks for students. Broken window panes of the school building add to the woes of the students, who are forced to study out in the open under



extreme cold conditions. “We appeal to the administration to provide us reading desks as it is very difficult for us to study on mats in the cold weather condition here,” a student Khushi Kumari said.

The students said sitting on mats on the cold floor is unbearable. A villager, Sat Paul, said the school building does not have window glasses and grills to prevent cold waves from entering classrooms, and appealed to authorities to take action in this regard.