<p>The lock up belongs to the Excise Department where criminals are detained during night. During day time, the school is being run for the local girls.<br /><br />The said building, under Purnia Municipal Corporation ward no 7, was handed over to the Excise Department 50 years ago, where it has a lock up too. However, much to everyone’s amusement, a government school for girls — Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya — was opened a few years back. Obviously, the educational atmosphere has been vitiated due to the presence of criminals on the premises and storage of liquor in the building.<br /><br />The matter was raised in the Bihar Assembly, too, where RJD legislator Abdul Bari Siddiqui said: “A government school is opened only after the prior approval of the district administration. So how could a school and a lock up co-exist? Has the Nitish regime taken any action against the Purnia DM and the district education officer for such a lapse?”<br />Embarrassed after being caught on the wrong foot, Bihar’s Excise and Prohibition Minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav admitted that the school was being run in the “hajat” of the Excise Department. <br /><br />This is not the first time that a school has been encroached. In Patna, a major portion of the AN College campus is still being occupied by CRPF personnel despite the issue being raised in the Assembly several times. <br />DH News Service</p>
<p>The lock up belongs to the Excise Department where criminals are detained during night. During day time, the school is being run for the local girls.<br /><br />The said building, under Purnia Municipal Corporation ward no 7, was handed over to the Excise Department 50 years ago, where it has a lock up too. However, much to everyone’s amusement, a government school for girls — Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya — was opened a few years back. Obviously, the educational atmosphere has been vitiated due to the presence of criminals on the premises and storage of liquor in the building.<br /><br />The matter was raised in the Bihar Assembly, too, where RJD legislator Abdul Bari Siddiqui said: “A government school is opened only after the prior approval of the district administration. So how could a school and a lock up co-exist? Has the Nitish regime taken any action against the Purnia DM and the district education officer for such a lapse?”<br />Embarrassed after being caught on the wrong foot, Bihar’s Excise and Prohibition Minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav admitted that the school was being run in the “hajat” of the Excise Department. <br /><br />This is not the first time that a school has been encroached. In Patna, a major portion of the AN College campus is still being occupied by CRPF personnel despite the issue being raised in the Assembly several times. <br />DH News Service</p>
