The only school in Saptari’s remote Gobargadha VDC, which is surrounded by the Koshi River, is in a sorry state.

1. The only school in Saptari’s remote Gobargadha VDC, which is surrounded by the Koshi River,
is in a sorry state.
Bhojdev Mandal, Acting Principal of local Sharada Lower Secondary School of the district, said
they were facing a hard time to run classes due to lack of furniture and class rooms.
There are 107 students studying in the school, which operates up to Grade VII, has four rooms
and a total of eight pairs of desk and bench. Though the school has one teacher, an office
assistant and a child development facilitator, they hardly attend the school, complained
guardians.
According to local Hari Narayan Yadav, a single teacher has been running the school with an
assistant’s help for the past two and a half months after former principal Manoj Kumar Yadav
got compulsory retirement. Though the District Education Office is well informed about the
problem, no initiatives have been taken yet, complained Mandal. “The office had assured an
additional teacher quota but it no one has yet been appointed,” he said.
Meanwhile, teacher and staff of the school said that they were unable to attend it regularly due to
security threat triggered by high chances of flooding in the river on the way. “There is no option
to shut the school for three monsoon months due to fear of flood,” they claimed.