Children stroll to close by village in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur for college solely to face caste bias

By Express News Service
JAGATSINGHPUR: Located in Jagatsinghpur city, kids of a tribal hamlet in Markandpur are disadvantaged of training with not even an anganwadi centre to impart primary training. With no possibility, the youngsters stroll a kilometre to a faculty in a close-by village. 

The residents have been demanding the district administration for opening a college or an anganwadi centre since a very long time however to no avail. Inhabited by 750 folks, the hamlet has round 60 kids beneath the age of 5. But owing to absence of an anganwadi centre, the youngsters cross a street and the Machgaon canal to check at a facility in Punaga village, round one km away. 

The residents nonetheless are cautious of sending their kids to a different village the place they’re allegedly being discriminated in opposition to on the idea of their caste. Besides, water facility to the hamlet has additionally not been supplied.

Neither the locality has correct drainage neither is any growth exercise being carried on the market. Most of the residents of the non-descript locality are additionally but to get land pattas (file of rights). President of Dalit Bikash Parishad, Sankar Das, in a writ petition filed with the Orissa High Court in November 2019, had sought land pattas for the residents.

The courtroom had directed the district administration to offer pattas to 35 households however the order has not been executed but.  Ganesh Hansda, a neighborhood stated the authorities involved had been apprised of the problems pertaining to the hamlet however nothing has occurred as but.