Broken desks and chairs and dilapidated buildings are what students and staff of the Wettala Asenkudhoos school, in Puttalam, have been putting up with for years.
The school, located about two miles from Puttalam town, is attended by some 650 Grade 1 to 11 students. The children come from families working in the salterns in the Puttalam area.
Opened with much fanfare back in the early ’70s by the then Education Minister Badiudin Mahmud , the school today is in a deplorable state of disrepair, and sadly neglected by the authorities.
Principal A. S. A. Siddiq said repeated requests for help from the relevant authorities have fallen on deaf years. Parents even staged a protest walk, carrying broken desks and chairs from the school, but to no avail. The school staff and students continue to wait in the hope that someone in the Education Department will give the school the urgent attention it requires. | 
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