River in spate, Madhya Pradesh teachers on tubes to beat e-attendance clock

BHOPAL: Time and tide wait for none. Nor do teachers of two govt schools in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind, floating on tubes, paddling and bobbing up on a rain-fed river to beat an unforgiving e-attendance app.The six male teachers navigate the seasonal obstacle course across the swollen Baisali river to reach two schools in Nadrauli and Sumer Singh Ka Pura villages in Bhind's Babedi area. A video of one of the schoolteachers on an inflated tyre tube has gone viral, highlighting the dangers residents face after heavy rains.While the teachers manage to get through the swirling waters, several of the 100 students in the two schools fail to make it to class during monsoon.The villages can only be reached by crossing the Baisali, which does not have a bridge and shrinks at other times of the year into a shallow, sand-heavy brook. Monsoon unleashes a tide of adversity.