Let embassy play its part

By Ramshankar B

We heard some hues and cries recently related to the functioning of Bahrain’s most prominent community school run by Indians. Irrespective of the changes in the management, blame game always engulfs the committee with many allegations since its inception.

It is not easy to run such a vast community school with more than 10,000 students during this pandemic. I believe the committee and the staff are trying their level best to improve the quality of education irrespective of the challenges.

The biggest challenge during this pandemic is to raise funds to support the poor and needy students. I believe it is high time the Indian Embassy gets involved and looks into the transparency in operation by bringing an external auditor to verify the book of accounts.

The reare many kind-hearted people ready to support the education of needy students. Unfortunately, they are not backing the school just because of the allegations raised by the opposition.

If I am not mistaken, Indian School Bahrain is operated under the patronage of the Indian Embassy, but most of the time the Embassy is not involved in the internal matters of the school. I think time has now come for the Embassy to look into the issues related to the community school.

If the Indian Embassy can come as an external body to monitor the books of accounts regularly it will help to develop a foolproof and transparent system. Naturally, such a two-tier system will help the better functioning of the school in the long run.