Protest over proposed parking lot near school
The Hindu
Students, parents of Chaderghat school want land back from HMRL for playground
The Government City Model Primary School at Chaderghat is a noisy racket during lunch break. The corridor, the classrooms, the small porch and the front of the school is filled with noisy children playing various games.
This was not always the case, as the school had a large open space in the middle where children could burn their energy. Things changed when the Hyderabad Metro chose the plot of land for raising pillars for its Red Line connecting LB Nagar to Miyapur in 2013.
The students were shifted to a nearby building while HMRL constructed the pillars and as per the agreement, rebuilt the school building, albeit in a different shape. The school, previously in a 75 by 45 metre plot of land, shrunk to a scalene triangle of 54 by 27 metres in the form of a four-storeyed building.