Summary:
The High Court had dismissed 133 of the 134 petitions from across the State, which sought to upgrade lower primary schools as upper primary schools. “It is difficult for him to go to any other high school, which is around 5 km away. “The Education Department claims they can arrange a vehicle to take him to the high school five km away. It was his campaign, ably supported by his family and village residents, that led the Education Department upgrade the lone government lower primary school to an upper primary school in 2015. There were no government high schools in the grama panchayat either..