Similarly, in Mesroli village of the district, the villagers have been demanding opening of a primary school but nothing happened. Every VIP who visits the village or candidates during election time promise to fulfill the demand of opening a school and a dispensary in the village but so far nothing concrete has been done.
He says the panchayat has been making requests for the opening of a primary school for the past two decades but all in vain. Interestingly, out of these only 10-12 children are going to school in a nearby village, which is 2 km away.Īhmed says at present there is only one matric pass student in the village and over 90 per cent of the village children are illiterate. One of the panchayat members, Khurshid Ahmed, reveals that there are around 200 families in the village who have about 250 primary-going children. This is not the story of Shakeena alone, there are numerous children in the village who spend time in performing day-to-day work at home rather than attending school. She wants to make her daughter self-dependent by making her literate and capable to earn a living for herself.īut she is helpless as there is no school in the village and she cannot muster courage due to her religion to send her to a school outside the village. “I want to make my daughter literate but can’t send her to a school which is far away from my village,” says Shakeena’s mother living in Adhaka village in Mewat district.
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