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Smart classes prove to be costly affair
Running the smart classes and TV lessons are proving to be a costly affair for the government schools as their power bills have raised three times since last one month.
​Hyderabad: Running the smart classes and TV lessons are proving to be a costly affair for the government schools as their power bills have raised three times since last one month.
A maintenance grant of 50,000 per annum is sanctioned to each of the school and from this amount; the schools have to meet expenditure on water supply, maintenance of toilets and other sanitary works like sweeping of class rooms and premises etc.
Some schools even have borewells and the cost of power for using borewells also has to be met from this amount. With the introduction of the smart classes in about 8000 schools which use TV, computers with internet connection etc has put additional burden.
The power bills have gone up by about three times. Each smart school now has to pay a power bill about Rs 1500-2000 per month since the TRANSCO levies commercial charges on these connections. As a result, nearly 50 percent of the maintenance fund goes towards this account. How to manage other bills is a big problem which the schools are now confronting.
Talking to The Hans India some of the headmasters said that they were running short of funds and have no other option but to divert funds being given for other activities to clear the bills.
The headmasters said, “If the government converts the connections of the government schools as domestic ones, the power bills will come down. Some schools have taken the issue to the notice of the collectors of their respective districts and requested them to show a way out”.
