Calls for bringing Attakulangara school campus alive

Key points

• Following the collapse of the roof of a heritage structure on the compound of Central High School, Attakulangara, and the blame game that ensued regarding accountability for the neglect that led to this incident, there is a growing clamour for improving the school’s standards and bringing its vast and verdant campus alive.
• The 137-year-old school, located in the heart of the city, is no stranger to change or challenges.
• While it did manage to prevent its land being hived off for a bus bay over a decade ago, it has not met with similar success in preventing itself from being forgotten.
• Nair, academic and history buff, says that to prevent the buildings on the school campus from falling into disuse and neglect, he had proposed air-conditioning two buildings and shifting rare books found in old school libraries in Thiruvananthapuram schools to these structures for setting up a heritage...