TOI Impact: Flood-hit teachers to get alternative classrooms
The Madhya Pradesh school education department has established alternative classrooms for students and teachers in Bhind after heavy rains made river crossings dangerous. Officials are also pursuing a proposal to construct a permanent bridge to ensure long-term safety and consistent schooling.
Why it matters
It highlights the critical infrastructure gaps in rural India that directly impact the fundamental right to education and public safety during monsoon seasons.
BHOPAL: Schoolteachers left stranded by the swollen Baisali river in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind will no longer have to risk crossing it on inflated tyre tubes to mark e-attendance, after the school education department arranged alternative classrooms and pushed for a permanent bridge.Alternative teaching venues were identified on the same side of the river where most teachers and students are stranded, and classes began there Monday, within hours of a TOI report and a viral video from Nadrauli and Sumer Singh Ka Pura in Babedi panchayat.Heavy rain had made the usual river crossing impassable, forcing teachers to ride across on inflated tubes. The footage triggered public outrage over their safety and disruption to students’ schooling during monsoon.“We cannot allow children’s studies to be disrupted or staff to risk their safety,” district education officer Sudhanshu Dwivedi told TOI.
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