India tales: labourers become VIPs in Sangrur, schoolgirls show their power in Jharkhand
A school which acknowledges every labourer who built it almost every single day a building, a school or a fly-over is inaugurated in India. And in each one of them, the name of theVIP who inaugurated it is immortalised on the foundation plaque. The labourers who gave their sweat and blood to build them are never acknowledged.
4 snakes have been released by forest officials in the Budhni forests adjoining Bhopal. The flying squad of the department had seized these snakes from snake charmers on Nag Panchami.Many of these snakes were injured. The mouths of some of the reptiles had been sewn.He has freed more than 2.5 lakh snakes in the last 30 years. Some of the snakes were rescued from the residences of the Madhya Pradesh chief minister and the Governor.
However, Sherpur village in Punjab's Sangrur district decided to pay tribute to the labourers who rebuilt a new block of the local school. The foundation plaque records the names of 21 masons, carpenters, labourers, plumbers, electricians and painters, who built it.
The name of the AAP MP Bhagwant Mann figures at the bottom, after the workers. The inscription reads, "With Rs 20 lakh provided under MPLAD funds, the construction the Government Senior Secondary School building was completed by the workers (names of all 21 workers) from 23 February 2015 to 10 July 2015."
Mason Sukhwinder Singh who completed the flooring for the new block, is overwhelmed to see his name on the plaque."I am in this profession for the past 15 years but I have never received such an honour. It is a very special feeling to see your name on the plaque," Singh, who lives in Sherpur village, says. Apparently, the workers' names were inscribed at Bhagwant Mann's insistence.
"I told the school management not to inscribe my name on the stone. It's these workers who have constructed the building," Mann says. Even the inauguration was done in a unique manner. It wasn't inaugurated by any VIP. Rather the village chose two class 12 toppers Jaspreet Kaur and Sarabjeet Kaur to inaugurate the building on Friday. The new block was built after a block, which had six rooms, had to be demolished after it was declared unsafe around a year ago.
The government may claim to have built 4.25 lakh toilets in a year, but here's a reality check. As many as 261 girls quit their studies at Kharswan district of Jharkhand as their school didn't have enough toilets. Kasturba Gandhi Residential School at Ichagarh has hundreds of girls but only 5 toilets. The school doesn't even have a proper boundary wall which enables intruders to enter the hostel premises at night.
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