“There are only two teachers, one for Hindi and the other for English, for all the students from Class VI-XI. ‘Back to square one’She said that if the teachers were not appointed, she and her classmates would be forced to go to neighbouring Kanwali village next year. The schoolgirls sat on an indefinite hunger strike in May demanding an upgrade of their village school to senior secondary level. They had alleged that they faced harassment and felt unsafe while travelling to the senior secondary school in neighbouring Kanwali village. Mr. Chauhan said that the official website of the Department of School Education, Haryana, which showed the village school as Senior Secondary after the upgrade, was again showing it as high school now.

Source: The Hindu November 29, 2017 20:03 UTC