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Odisha: School students march 8 km to Collector's office over lack of basic facilities

Bhubaneswar, Sep 21 (UNI) Hundreds of students of a government-run residential school for SC and ST children in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district today marched around eight km to meet the Collector and protest alleged lack of basic facilities, poor-quality food and inadequate classroom teaching, officials said.
The protest erupted at the Bisipur Government Residential School in Khunta block, where the students initially blocked the road before setting out on foot towards the Collector's office.
The students alleged that they were being served poor-quality food and had no access to safe drinking water. They also claimed that the institution had been without electricity for more than two months. "Food served to us is of very poor quality. We do not have safe drinking water and there has been no electricity for over two months," a protesting student said.
The students further alleged that teaching had been affected by vacancies in teacher posts and that repeated complaints to the headmaster had yielded no result. The march was later halted following intervention by the administration.
"All the grievances raised by the students are genuine and will be resolved shortly," District Welfare Officer Guru Charan Mallick said. He said action would be taken against the school authorities for allegedly keeping senior officials unaware of the students' problems. The students were brought back to the school in vehicles arranged by the administration. UNI MK SS
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