Modi intervenes after 11-yr-old Unnao boy complains about long route to school

February 03, 2016 09:02

A letter by 11-year-old Nayan Sinha from Unnao to Prime Minister Narendra Modi last September has put Railway officials in quite a fix, after the latter stepped in to address the issues raised by the school boy.

Nayan, a class VII student of Chandrashekhar Azad Intermediate College in Unnao, wrote to PM Modi last September complaining of the absence of a crossing at the railway tracks between his locality had forced over 200 students to take a longer route every morning to school.

This, Nayan told the prime minister, was resulting in him being punished regularly by the school for reaching late. The letter prompted Modi to take up the issue with the Railway Ministry.

According to Nayan, he and several other students from his locality, do not cross the unmanned crossing and take a route which is about two kilometres longer than the earlier route. The railway track is about 100 metres from Nayans house.

"I never cross the railway tracks as my parents have asked me not to. But the alternate route is much longer, so I reach school late and get punished on most days. In September last year, without informing anyone, I posted the letter to the Prime Minister. I wrote about how I have to walk extra to reach school," Nayan told a daily.

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