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Over 1,600 Thai schools damaged by floods
BANGKOK, October 4 (TNA) - The Thai Ministry of Education reported on Tuesday that over 1,600 schools across the country have been damaged by critical floods since late July and executives of the affected schools have been given the green light to postpone the reopening of their schools' second semester case by case, if necessary.
Chinnapat Bhumirat, Secretary General of the ministry's Office of Basic Education Commission, confirmed that a total of 1,609 schools in 53 provinces nationwide under his office's jurisdiction have been affected by the ongoing flooding crisis, most of them, or 1,533, are primary schools, while the rest are secondary schools.
Chinnapat said that most of the flood-affected schools, or 141, are in Thailand's central Ayutthaya Province, followed by 118 schools in the lower northern Nakhon Sawan Province and 115 schools in the central Lop Buri Province, with overall damage initially assessed at some 429 million baht, excluding some 30 per cent of the total flood-hit schools where official assessments of damage are to be conducted after the current inundations recede.
The senior Thai official acknowledged that, apart from allowing the flood-stricken schools to consider adjourning the reopening of the upcoming second semester case by case, he has also instructed educational offices in all parts of the country to send teachers to visit flood-affected students at their homes where outside-class learning, including how inundations take place with practical approaches to prevent and to deal with floods, will probably be organised.
According to the senior official, his office will also hand out donations to the flood-affected schools, including financial support, boats and even life jackets. (TNA)
Chinnapat Bhumirat, Secretary General of the ministry's Office of Basic Education Commission, confirmed that a total of 1,609 schools in 53 provinces nationwide under his office's jurisdiction have been affected by the ongoing flooding crisis, most of them, or 1,533, are primary schools, while the rest are secondary schools.
Chinnapat said that most of the flood-affected schools, or 141, are in Thailand's central Ayutthaya Province, followed by 118 schools in the lower northern Nakhon Sawan Province and 115 schools in the central Lop Buri Province, with overall damage initially assessed at some 429 million baht, excluding some 30 per cent of the total flood-hit schools where official assessments of damage are to be conducted after the current inundations recede.
The senior Thai official acknowledged that, apart from allowing the flood-stricken schools to consider adjourning the reopening of the upcoming second semester case by case, he has also instructed educational offices in all parts of the country to send teachers to visit flood-affected students at their homes where outside-class learning, including how inundations take place with practical approaches to prevent and to deal with floods, will probably be organised.
According to the senior official, his office will also hand out donations to the flood-affected schools, including financial support, boats and even life jackets. (TNA)
