KANCHANPUR, May 19 -- Children studying at Janata Basic School in Bhimdatta Municipality-11, Kanchanpur, spend their days trying to keep themselves cool in their suffocatingly hot classrooms made of galvanized zinc sheets.

The children were moved to the makeshift classrooms after their previous school building was demolished to accommodate the Mahakali bridge project. Although the school management committee has pledged to construct a new school building, it comes as little relief to the children, as summer is upon them and staying inside the classroom has become a daily battle.

The students from kindergarten to grade 3 can be seen hunched over their books, trying to concentrate on the day's lessons in the makeshift classroom.

"It gets...