Itahari, May 26:

Vice-chairman of PABSON Dil Kumar Won said today efforts aimed at reopening the Moonlight boarding school by facilitating talks between the guardians of 13 schoolchildren, who died when a tempo carrying schoolchildren plunged into the Chatra canal on May 9, and the school management ended without reaching an agreement.

The PABSON has been trying to reopen the school by mediating in talks between the guardians of the 13 schoolchildren and the management and agreeing on adequate amount of compensation.

“Since the very beginning, we have been working as a mediator to ensure schoolchildren’s right to study and ensure adequate compensation to the parents,” Won told this daily.

“Since we and our organisation were discredited despite making the efforts, we stopped mediating from today.”

The chances of the school reopening appear bleak. During the talks held yesterday, the school management said it was ready to construct a school building and statues of the dead schoolchildren in 10 kattha of land. The guardians, however, demanded that the school build a seven-room concrete building in one bigha of land, Won said.