MP teacher reunites couple, brings girls to school

A government school teacher in Madhya Pradesh, assigned to track out-of-school children and get them enrolled, has ended up reuniting an estranged tribal couple - to ensure that their two daughters are admitted in the nearest school for continuing their education.

- ANURAAG SINGH

The development was reported from Bajrang Garh village under Rampur Naikin block of eastern MP's Sidhi district recently.

The teacher, Dharmendra Parihar, who is the in charge of the upper primary school in Bajrang Garh, was surveying out-of-school children in one part of the village, where he found that a tribal labourer, Manoj Rawat, has two daughters Ajanavi (6) and Arti (5) who were not enrolled in the school.

When he met the daily-wage labourer and enquired why the his two daughter weren't enrolled in the school, Rawat said that a few months back his wife had left him after a quarrel with him and was living along with both the daughters at her parents' place in adjoining Shahdol district.