This year's unseasonal rains have destroyed the playground under construction at Rama Secondary School in Narharinath-3 in the district at an investment of Rs 70 lakh. The playground was being built for two years with the cost sharing of the Karnali Provincial Government and Narharinath Rural Municipality. The playground collapsed on Wednesday. The school was also at risk after the playground collapsed when the construction was about to be completed, said Principal Tapendra Mahatara. 'It was 90 percent complete,' he said, 'and the wall collapsed, rendering it useless.' According to him, the Land and Watershed Conservation Office had spent Rs 800,000 and installed gabion netting two years ago. He said that the ground collapsed as soon as it rained because the foundation was weak at that time. This year, the Social Development Office under the province had allocated Rs 15 and the rural municipality Rs 10 lakh for the construction of the playground. Local Kali Bahadur Budha said that the school wall collapsed because it was too high to support the load. ‘A vertical wall was erected on a weak foundation,’ he said, ‘The rain melted the red soil and the wall collapsed.’ Anipal Bishwakarma, a source in the education department, said that the problem arose when the ground was being prepared this year and preparations were being made to conduct the rural municipality-level President’s Ringing Shield in April.