Class XII girls cycles 12 km every day to fetch water, writes to PM

September 23, 2021 12:25

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Schoolgirl Toma Das, 15, cycles 12km every day to bring drinking water home in her North 24-Parganas village from a roadside PHE reservoir.

In the last week of July, Toma, who studies in Class X Hulorchar village of Hansnabad block, submitted an appeal through the Prime Minister's public grievance portal, saying that fetching water hampered her studies.

Read the report here.

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