Gurugram: Challenges for the district Health department to set up a government hospital at the site of a 100-year-old government school heightened on Saturday, after students took to the streets in protest.
Students of the Government Senior Secondary Boys School in Sadar Bazaar demanded that the government was trying the school to shift to a location where the structure of the school building had still not come up.
"The school is centrally located and easily accessible. Now, in a haphazard manner, the government has decided to shift the school, which is not acceptable," said Mahender one of the protesting students.
Having formally taken a decision to expand the Civil Hospital located in Sadar Bazaar area of Gurugram, a major challenge for the Haryana government is to accommodate the 900 students of the government school.
In order to increase the capacity of patients, a new 100-bed hospital will be constructed on the area where the government school is located.
The new structure will, however, result in the government school – constructed in 1899 – to be taken down.
Senior teachers and retired government officials, though, have not welcomed the move to improve the state of Gurugram's public healthcare system and have not shied away in expressing their concern