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| Sunday, 23 February 2003 |
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CMC spring-cleans city schools by Carol Aloysius The Colombo Municipality yesterday, launched one of its most ambitious programs for the year: cleaning up all the schools in the city. The program is the sequel to a recent study by the CMC which found that the majority of schools in the metropolis had very unhealthy environments. "Many of them were found to have overcrowded classes, (with over fifty students crowded in one class allowing little or no space for students to move around), poor ventilation and bad lighting. They were dirty,and lacked basic amenities such as clean drinking water and proper toilets. The drains running through the school grounds were often blocked. We also found that many school compounds were strewn with polythene bags and other garbage which breed mosquitoes. These unhealthy environmment can have adverse effects on the health of the students and the teachers as well. So it's time the schools learn to clean up their act", Dr Pradeep Kariyawasam, Chief Medical Officer , CMC told the Sunday Observer. Initially, all schools in the city will be given guidelines to follow on creating healthy environments. "We will monitor and evaluate their progress. Any school that reaches 80% of our cut off mark will be given a certificate as being a ` Healthy School', Dr Kariyawasam said. According to him, a pilot study of fourteen leading schools in the city had revealed that only one school ( a girls' school) could qualify to be a ` healthy school'. |
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