Patna, Oct 7 (IANS): Around 70 students were forced to study on road as their school was waterlogged in Bihar's Banka district.

Students of Majhgaon primary school under Amarpur block are regularly coming and studying on the road.

Due to heavy rain for the last three days in the district, the school is waterlogged.

School Principal Manoj Kumar Paswan said the block education officer was informed about the water-logging but no arrangement has been made so far.

“We have 70 students in the school and two teachers including me. The schools is waterlogged and hence we are using the adjoining road as a makeshift arrangement,” Paswan said.

“The school was built in 1950 and its building is also dilapidated. We have written to the the education department about it in 2016 but no action has been taken so far,” Paswan said.

However, Block education officer Amarpur, Banka, Shivnarayan Thakur said, “We have received complaints about water-logging in a school located at Majhgaon village. We have informed the higher officers for the same and demanded for the repair work of the building as well as pumping out water from school premises,”