India, March 20 -- LUCKNOW The Kendriya Vidyalaya on Lucknow SGPGI campus will soon be shut in a phased manner without causing inconvenience to students enrolled in the institution. Post-closure, the school building will be utilised by the PGI for its purposes.

"After the SGPGI came into being in Lucknow, the school was set up with the sole purpose of catering to children of doctors and other employees of the PGI. Currently, we are spending around Rs.7 crore annually on salaries to the school staff while 10 to 15 kids of our staff study in the school," said SGPGIMS director Prof RK Dhiman, confirming the development.

"Most of the students at KV, SGPGI, come from outside our campus. There is a security issue also. During an audit, an obj...