Protest at Roodal Moonilal Ramai Trace Hindu School

With just two weeks to go before the start of the academic year, PTA members and other parents of pupils of the school charged that without immediate intervention by Garcia, students and staff “will continue to suffer”. Due to the ongoing construction of the school, students were relocated to the Hanuman Milan Mandir at the Penal Rock Road, Penal. PTA president Indar Jairaj vowed yesterday that failure by the minister to meet with the PTA will result in further protests.

The school, formerly called the Ramai Trace Hindu Primary School, was officially renamed in 2013 in honour of then Housing Minister now Opposition Member of Parliament for Oropouche East, Dr Roodal Moonilal.

“The temple is located some 55 minutes away for here. We are pleading with the minister, come and look at the school. It is more than 90 percent completed. We were expected to get in the school since last term. We are hearing that contractors are not being paid.

This is real stress on the 271 students and on the parents,” Jairaj explained.

Jairaj added that students leave Debe as early as 6.30 am to attend classes at the mandir which is very cramped.