19-year wait for school, students study in leaking kitchen shed in Chhattisgarh

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For 19 years, a village in Chhattisgarh’s Surguja has been waiting for its school building while students are compelled to attend classes in a crumbling and leaking Anganwadi kitchen shed.

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00:00Get Real India story, a school that exists only on paper, but the students are forced to study in a leaking kitchen shed.

00:08In Chhattisgarh, Sarguja district, promises made 19 years ago have crumbled like the walls these students sit under.

00:15Take a look at tonight's Get Real India story.

00:30This is where the government primary school of Kudar-e-Jangalpada should have been.

00:46Instead, it runs from a crumbling and leaking Aanganwadi kitchen shed.

00:51The headmaster says the high officials have been informed many times.

01:21There is a safety tank, but there is no problem.

01:28We didn't get any money from the school.

01:31We didn't get any money from the last time.

01:35The school was sitting in a room.

01:39After that, the school was made of Aanganwadi.

01:43In 2006, the school was made of Aanganwadi.

01:4819 years and counting, this village in Sarguja district of Chhattisgarh is still waiting for its school building.

02:01With Sumit Singh, Bureau Report, India Today.

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