In an interview with IRNA on Thursday, Mohsen Pourglian added: “According to the technical standard, currently 50% of Qom schools are strong in terms of structures, facilities and architecture, and 32% need to be strengthened and 18% need to be demolished and rebuilt.”
He added that schools in need of demolition and reconstruction do not have a static problem: 18%, equivalent to 170 schools with 1,318 classrooms and 171,000 square meters of infrastructure, need demolition and reconstruction.
He continued: 32% of schools that need to be rehabilitated are equivalent to 187 schools with 2 thousand 53 classrooms and 291 thousand square meters of infrastructure.
Pourglian pointed out: “Since 1985, when the demolition and reconstruction plan began, in the evaluation of schools in Qom province, it was determined that 1,100 classrooms should be demolished.”
He added: “Of this number, 1,013 classrooms, equivalent to 90 schools with 141,000 square meters of infrastructure, have been demolished and rebuilt, which is equivalent to 90% of the approved share of demolition classrooms in Qom province.”
According to him, the evaluation criteria have changed over the past 14 years, and the number of destroyed schools has increased based on the length of time and the change in the evaluation criteria.
The director general of Qom school renovation added: During this period, 73 schools with 762 classrooms and 778 thousand square meters of infrastructure have been rehabilitated.
In the new academic year, the number of students has increased by eight percent compared to the previous academic year and has reached about 270,000 at different stages; 670 physical spaces and 5,800 classrooms have been prepared and the number of codes of education spaces in Qom is about 1,300 units.
