The Time of India reports

“Rancho will visit 'his own' school — five days after flash floods devastated Druk Padma Karpo School in Leh.- please follow this link for details - 'Rancho' to comfort students of Leh school - India - The ToI.

The ground floor of the Junior School

The mud reached the middle shelf of the shoe racks on the ground floor of the Junior School. The mark left by the mud is clearly visible on the wall on the photograph below. Volunteers are already working hard to clear the mud from the Junior School by hand. More than 200 volunteers were onsite today, 11 August 2010, clearing mud from the classrooms, and rocks and boulders from the courtyards. Class 8 is due to restart on Thursday, 12 August 2010.

10h00 London time, Tuesday 10th August 2010

All 200 residential children had returned to school after the summer holidays by the time the mudslide struck.  Some have since returned to their families for the time being.  Those still at the school are still returning to Shey Palace at night as a precautionary measure.

Please follow this links for a Slideshow from Reuters India regarding the flash floods in Ladakh

The clip below, from YouTube, is of an Indian TV station news bulletin on the damage caused by mudslide the  to the school

Even the playground was damaged by the flood

15h00 London time, Sunday 8th August 2010
Phil Cornwell (school’s UK project office) spoke today to Sonam Angdus (Construction Manager), Anokhee Shah (Arup Resident Engineer), and to Regina Ulwer and Pankaj Bansal (volunteers) in Ladakh.

The IT room was devastated and all the computers will need to be replaced.

The Administration courtyard suffered the brunt of the mudslide. As shown in one of the photographs below the mud reached the roof on the wall nearest to the school entrance, entered the Principal’s office, and completely flood it with mud that reached waist high level.