Academic year comes to end, but students are deprived of cycles yet
4,000 cycles getting rust at Kalladka-Mudipu School ground!
Bantwal, Jan 08: Cycles were usually distributed to students at the beginning of an academic year. However, though the current academic year is coming to an end, cycles have not been distributed to government schools so far. It has disappointed the students.
The Government had introduced the free cycle scheme to attract students towards government schools where, and to facilitate those students who do not have proper transportation facility as the number of students was declining day by day.
Since the scheme was implemented, cycles were provided up to the previous academic year. But, bicycles which had to be distributed to the students of Bantwal Taluk in the current year, have remained in Kalladka and Mudipu government schools for about three months. Consequently, the students of the current academic year have been deprived of cycles.
The government has reportedly given this contract to the Hero Company, and 4000 cycles of this company were sanctioned for the students of Bantwal Taluk. Following which the bicycles in same numbers have been reached to the Kalladka and Mudipu government schools. Several people have alleged that even after three months, the bicycles were not distributed to the students. The bicycles are still in the same place and getting rust.
Immediate distribution if government orders
The distribution of bicycles in the Bantwal taluk was on hold since the government has ordered the DDPI to distribute bicycles after having a quality check as the education department had received complaints from a various place of the state regarding the low quality of the cycles.
As per this order, a team of the department has recently visited Kalladka and Mudipu schools to check the quality of the bicycles and sent a report to the higher officials. The bicycles will be distributed soon after getting the government orders, Bantwal BEO Shivaprakash informed.
In November, the spare parts of the cycles were brought and assembled at the Kalladka Government School ground. However, they have not been distributed to students till date.
Also, parts are not assembled properly. Since the bicycles are stored on the ground, students are facing difficulty in playing there. The Block Education Officer must bring this issue to the government's notice and deliver the quality bicycle as soon as possible, Kalladka School's old student Musthafa has urged.
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Missing woman death: Police intensifies probe, boyfriend questioned
Kochi (PTI): The Kerala police have launched a comprehensive probe into the mysterious death of a 19-year-old woman, whose decomposed body was found near her home after she went missing last week in Malayattoor near here.
A college student in Bengaluru, Chithrapriya, went missing from her home on Saturday evening.
Her body was discovered in a deserted field about one kilometre from her residence on Tuesday, police said.
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A senior police officer said several suspected persons, including the boyfriend of the woman, were taken into custody for interrogation.
Inquest procedures have been completed, and the post-mortem will begin soon, he said.
"First and foremost thing is to identify the body and confirm that it was that of the missing woman. The body was in a decomposed state, and we assumed that it might be her based on the dress," a police officer said.
The cause of death has to be ascertained to confirm whether it is a murder, and that would be revealed through the post-mortem, he added.
A case of unnatural death has been registered.
Earlier, an FIR was registered at Kalady police station following a complaint by her parents, and an investigation was launched to trace her.
Local media reported that the investigators are examining CCTV visuals in which Chithrapriya was seen pillion-riding on a motorbike on the day she went missing. But, the police have declined to confirm it.
