This story is from June 8, 2019

‘Condition may worsen after June 11’

‘Condition may worsen after June 11’
PANAJI: With hundreds more students set to move to the Cujira campus once S S Dempo College of Commerce and Economics reopens on June 11, stakeholders are apprehensive the situation could worsen unless immediate remedial steps are taken.
Further, Anjuman Nurul Islamia, the sixth and last school that is expected to shift into the complex during the current academic year, will add 400 students to the current count of school students.

Currently, while an estimated 7,000 students study at the complex, there is just a single outlet for vehicles to enter and exit, which leads to the traffic congestion.
If the ring road under construction to the South of the complex is not ready as per the November schedule, parents, students and teachers will be staring at an even worse traffic nightmare.
Ironically, the Cujira school complex was conceptualised to de-congest Panaji of traffic congestion. However, parents are currently in a more difficult situation.
“Close to 7,000 students study at the Cujira complex. Add to this, the vehicles of teachers and other school staff. The common parking area available at the complex, borrowed from the SAG at the adjoining stadium, can accommodate just 150 vehicles and 40 school buses.

When the complex was conceptualised, schools were promised common facilities like parking, sewerage treatment plant and a common auditorium. None of these have been provided,” said one school official.
The Cujira school complex became operational in 2015 with Dr K B Hedgewar and Mushtifund High School moving in there on the land provided to six Panaji institutes on a 99-year lease basis by the state government.
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