LAWAS, March 23: Public Works Department (JKR) has been asked to estimate the cost of building a dormitory for the new SK Awat-Awat in Sundar here which is aiming for completion by the end of March.
Deputy Premier Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan hopes that the new RM22.48 million primary school can be handed over to the Sarawak Education Department by early April.
“SK Awat-Awat will have many facilities to provide a conducive learning and teaching environment for both students and teachers.
“Among the facilities the school will have include eight teachers’ rooms, six classrooms and a futsal field, but what is not available is a dormitory.
“I will work on getting the dormitory for boys and girls to be built at the school,” he said in a news report by Sarawak Public Communications Unit (Ukas) today.
Awang Tengah highlighted this in a press conference after visiting the school together with acting Limbang Resident Sebi Abang, political secretary to the Premier of Sarawak Awangku Zainal Abidin Dato Pengiran Jawa as well as JKR Lawas District engineer Lee Teck Kiu and civil engineer Faznur Syakira Zulkipli on Monday (March 21).
On March 17, it was reported that construction of the school was 98 per cent completed despite some delays caused by various factors, including the Covid-19 pandemic as well as a shortage of building materials and workers.
An administrative block, an academic block, toilets, a preschool block, teachers’ rooms, computer rooms, laboratories, guard house, bicycle shed, waste depot, pump house, water tanks, and installation of furniture have all been completed.
Awang Tengah, who is also the Bukit Sari assemblyman, said that when fully completed, SK Awat-Awat will be able to accommodate 210 students from Primary One to Six as well as a kindergarten for 60 students.
“As for the open space at the school, I am suggesting that it be turned into a park to enable students to hone their talents in landscaping that would in turn provide a more appealing learning environment as well,” he added. — DayakDaily
