Jadavpur Vidyapith to get playground on its rooftop

Kolkata: In a significant stride towards encouraging students to take part in sports and extra-curricular activities more often, Jadavpur Vidyapith is coming up with a playground on the roof top of the

school building.

"We will develop facilities for a number of games on the roof top of the school building. There will be facilities for games like football, cricket, badminton, table tennis and other games," said Parimal Bhattacharjee, headmaster of the school.

There are similar facilities of playground on school roof tops in Asian countries like China and Singapore but such facilities in the country is unheard of. The school in consultation with experts has already prepared the detailed project report (DPR) for

the project.

"There are a number of government and government-aided schools in the city and its suburbs that have a reasonable number of students. In a number of instances, when we had planned to host sports events for them, the lack of space acted has as a barrier. The move from our school came from this very idea so that students can take part in sports activities," a senior teacher of the

school said.

Jadavpur Vidyapith's present student strength is 16,037 from Class V to X. The primary section from Class I to V which is held under the National Council has around 2,100 students. "We want to be a trend setter in this regard among other government schools," the teacher added. The school authorities will set up the infrastructure of the playground in phases. A number of alumni have already evinced interest in the project and the school authorities will seek financial help from them.