Balasore: With students and their guardians expressing apprehensions over attending classes at Bahanaga Bazar High School, where bodies of June 2 Odisha train accident victims were kept, Balasore Collector Dattatraya Bhausaheb Shinde on Thursday said that the old building where some rooms were converted into temporary mortuary might be demolished.
“I held a meeting with the school managing committee, staff and local representatives. They suggested that the building with an asbestos roof should be demolished since is already very old and there is some apprehensions among people since it was used as a mortuary. I have requested them to pass a resolution on the same, which can be forwarded to the government for necessary action,” the collector said after visiting the educational institution, where he spent around 45 minutes.
He, however, said that the notion among people that ‘ghosts’ are present in the building are baseless. “There is no factual data about it. It’s our duty to help the student develop a scientific temper. The school was transformed and a laboratory was set up under 5T for the purpose. Media houses should restrain from broadcasting such fake news. We should focus on scientific temper and method and stay away from such superstitions,” he said.
The 65-year-old educational institution is located a few hundred metres away from the Bahanaga Bazar Station, where the train accident involving Coromandel Express, SMVP-Howrah Superfast Express and a goods train took place killing 288 passengers.
