Children attend lessons in paddy fields, mother and father protest incomplete highway

By Express News Service

JAGATSINGHPUR: Nearly 20 college students of Rahadinga village in Raghunathpur block have been restricted by their mother and father to go to high school protesting non-completion of a highway development work for over per week now. These kids are being taught by a non-public trainer in an open discipline.

Sources mentioned, a 400-metre slender highway linking Rahadinga chowk of Jaipur- Jagatsinghpur with ward no 11 of Rahadinga village was in a dilapidated state. In wet season, the highway situation bought worse posing difficulties for locals in addition to kids going to the close by main faculty. Many college students, they mentioned, even had close to deadly accidents on the highway whereas going to high school.  

After villagers took up the matter and sought official intervention to renovate the highway, the district administration sanctioned `1 lakh below MGNREGS final yr. Ward member  Arun Kumar Mall deployed 22 job card holders and work commenced a number of days again this month.

However, final week, some villagers stopped the work alleging that the land belongs to some personal people and within the title of a temple. As the highway development remained incomplete, mother and father vowed to not ship their kids to high school till the work resumes. Instead they engaged a non-public tutor to show their wards within the paddy discipline. 

Confirming the identical, panchayat samiti member Ranjan Swain mentioned,”Children from Ward 11 are should not going to the first faculty since 3-4 days and being taught below polythene tent within the paddy discipline. We are attempting to resolve the land dispute.”

On the opposite hand, Raghunathpur Block Education Officer Bijay Kumar Swain mentioned neither villagers nor faculty headmaster have but communicated concerning the difficulty. “An inquiry will be initiated and local revenue officials will look into the matter,” he added.