Faced with an acute shortage of funds the Syed Jamaluddin Afghan School in Delhi’s Bhogal, the only educational resource for refugees from the war-torn country in the area is staring at an uncertain future.
“We are facing two major problems. First is the salary of the teachers as they didn’t receive the salary for the last nine months and the second problem is that the rent of the school has not been paid for a while. All funds come from the Ministry of Education to the embassy in Delhi. It is a long procedure and we haven”t received it yet,” the school’s Deputy Administrator Kanishka Shahabi told ANI here.
Authorities of the school which commenced operation around two decades ago fear that political turmoil in Afghanistan will result in the closure of this school.
“These days, we can’t find a responsible person in Afghanistan to talk about schools as the ministry of education is closed. Nobody knows what will happen. It is very soon to say something about the condition, school is a small institution we don’t know what will happen next,” Deputy Administrator of the school Kanishka Shahabi told ANI here.
He also mentioned that 95 per cent of the staff are women and under the regime of the Taliban the fate of the women staff remains undecided. The Bhogal based school administration has requested the Afghan embassy and Indian government to resolve the issues and help run the institution smoothly.
