PARENTS OF STUDENTS AND MUNICIPALITY OF PALILULA ARE PLEDGING FOR START OF WORK ON CLASSROOM RECONSTRUCTION
2.09.2013
To mark the start of the new school year, the president of Palilula Boban Džunić and his associates met with parents and members of the Council of the primary school "Branko Miljkovic" in Nis on resolving the current problem of the reconstruction of school buildings, classrooms and organizing classes in this educational institution. The problem surfaced a year ago, after the school year 2012/2013, when the building inspectors ordered the primary school "Branko Miljkovic" to shut down and put out of use nine classrooms that are prone to falling, because staying in them is a potential danger to students.

Building inspection survey found that those classrooms, because of age, can at any moment be broken down and it would not be desirable to lecture within them. He also ordered that the classrooms either become renovated or to upgrade and build new ones, because the old can no longer be used. There are about nine classrooms that are prefabricated, and built in the old part of the school in 1965, that can not be used anymore. Municipality of Palilula took active part in creating the conditions to resolve this problem urgently, in cooperation with the school management, according to president Džunić. According to initial calculations for the expansion of the school, the costs are 110 million. Ministry of Regional Development and Local Government allocated 25 million for this purpose, while the city budget will allocate about 30 million.

Due to changes in the plans for the construction of new classrooms instead of the old, we had to change the design, but that is over, and now we're waiting for tendering and selection of contractors – said the principal of the school Miroslav Stanic.
The response of parents is quite justified, since the works didn’t start, even though it is a beginning of a new school year-said Džunić. They are aware that school or the municipality-town is not responsible for the situation, but they didn’t wanted that the situation from last year be repeated, so they requested the meeting with me to speed up the start of construction of new classrooms.

About a thousand students in the school "Branko Miljkovic" will continue this year to study in three shifts and their classes will be shortened to 30 minutes in order to compensate for the material-says principal, and we will have to work on Saturdays. As the law provides a five-day workweek, students who had justifiable reasons not to attend classes on Saturdays will be recorded but will not count as absences from school in these classes. We are just forced-said principal, to work in this mode. We expect that at any moment they start working on the construction of nine classrooms. Upon completion of this investment, which the Tax Inspectorate found that this reconstruction project is a priority, the school will return to normal mode. (Д.Видојковиц, ЕКОполис мрежа)