Daijiworld Media Network - Kundapur (SP)

Kundapur, Mar 9: Schools and colleges have been registering almost full attendance now. But buses have not become fully operational in rural roads. This is creating problems for the students of schools and colleges.

The Japthi primary school has provision to teach up to the seventh standard. The children need to travel to far off Basrur or Bidkalkatte to attend higher classes. But there is no bus facility. As such, the children of some villages have no other option but to walk four to five km every day to attend the school whether it is rainy season or summer.

Being from poor families, the villagers cannot afford hired vehicles or auto rickshaws for their children. Most of these students are girls and the road leading to schools has forest on both sides and as such, not safe for single persons to walk through. Some families therefore cut short the education of their children because of the dangers involved. The villagers have written to the district deputy commissioner, requesting him to attend to this problem.

Raghavendra Mogaveera from Japthi said that the deputy commissioner has been urged to arrange for buses on Basrur-Hunsemakke route in order to brighten the future of the students as otherwise many families stop the children's education on account of transportation problem.