Reacting to a video of road patch work being done outside a hospital in Jhalawar ahead of the school education minister’s visit to meet the injured, the district collector said, “I am unaware of it… I will take an update”.On the repair work of the school building, Singh said, “There are clear-cut directions for it. The district administration is making efforts to ensure that the incident does not occur again. District education officials have been directed to not let students enter schools if the condition of the building is not good.”He said it was unfortunate that no input was received from the school staff regarding the condition of the building. “If we had received any complaint, we would have got the building repaired and the incident could have been averted,” he said.On Friday morning, the children, all students of Classes 6 and 7 at Piplod Government School, had barely assembled for the morning prayer when a portion of the building collapsed, burying over 35 children under debris. 28 were injured.Slabs of concrete, bricks and stones were piled up high, and scores of people, including frantic parents and teachers, helped in the rescue effort, searching through the mounds of debris to pull out the children.After the incident, anger and sorrow spilt onto the streets as locals blocked roads at Guradi Circle and outside SRG Hospital, demanding accountability. The protest, joined briefly by Congress leader Naresh Meena, led to his detention by police.Protesters at Guradi Circle turned aggressive when police reached the spot to clear the roadblock and started pelting stones at the police, injuring a policeman. The police used mild force to disperse the agitators.
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