No power, no water: Hapur school students left to suffer in 45°C heat

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In Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, students at Lakshmi Junior High School have been studying without electricity for over five months due to an unpaid bill of ₹45,000.

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00:00These young students were being forced to study in the sweltering heat with no fans and no lights

00:04due to the lack of electricity. These visuals are from Lakshmi Junior High School, a government

00:09primary school in Harper, UP, located barely 50 steps away from the SDM office and the

00:13electricity department. Yet, the school has been without electricity for over five months.

00:18The reason? A Rs 45,000 unpaid electricity bill. Children sitting in classrooms were seen fanning

00:24themselves with books and notebooks. With no fans, no lights and a non-functional submersible

00:29pump, children from classes 1 to 8 were left to suffer in silence, studying in heat and

00:34without access to clean drinking water. While some children brought water from home, others

00:39were forced to drink from the school's unreliable tap, often dry due to the power cut.

00:52When we spoke to the students, they said that there had been no electricity for over five months.

00:59When contacted, newly appointed District Magistrate Abhishek Pandey said that he was not aware

01:08of the issue.

01:08After this meeting, I am going to sit in Nagarpalika. I will tell you about this situation. I will

01:13do this.

01:14A school right next to the administration, yet invisible to the system. Five months without electricity

01:20and water. And questions still unanswered. When will this darkness end?

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