Hyderabad, Feb. 23 -- The area around schools is supposed to be spick and span. But it is otherwise at the Government School Second Lancer II at Golconda in Hyderabad.

The boundary wall near the school is reduced into a garbage dumping ground by the residents irrespective of the presence of educational institutions that cater to the scholastic knowledge of the children.

Students sitting in the classrooms complain of foul smells emanating from the garbage dumps lying outside the school boundary. "Sometimes, the smell is so unbearable that we shift to some other classroom or just close the window of the classroom," a school teacher said on condition of anonymity.

The parents have time and again complained to the local municipal sweepers ...