With 600 more kids, traffic woes at Cujira complex to worsen

PANAJI: From June 2020, Anjuman Nurul Islam High School of Panaji will also be shifting its operations to the Cujira school complex. Around 600 students from the institute will be studying at the new building at the complex. With this, the total number of students attending school at the Cujira complex will go up to 6,700, in addition to the teachers and other school staff.Anjuman Nurul Islam High School will be the sixth and last school in the first phase of Cujira school complex to shift there, making the complex fully operational.
However, when the new academic year begins in June 2020, traffic congestion at the complex is expected to only worsen during the school opening and closing hours, with one more institute operating from here.
Congestion at the complex continues despite the dedicated ring road being opened up to exit the complex. The work on the planned redevelopment of the complex is also going on at a very slow pace, leaving no relief in sight. “The ring road is operational. It was to provide an exit from the complex, which is different from the entry. However, some more development work has started at the exit point. This has reduced the exit point to a narrow passage. As a result, parents continue to use the entrance to exit as well and the traffic congestion continues,” said a school official.
The state government had announced redevelopment of the complex as a solution to the chaos witnessed there at the start of every academic year , but there has been little headway in that direction for the last two years.
Separate parking for two-wheeler, four-wheelers, visitors and school staff was to be demarcated under the redevelopment.
Six Panaji schools were provided land of 10,000 sqm each at the Cujira school complex on a 99-year lease as a move to decongest the capital.