Braving Maoist threats, a school was reopened after 13 years in Bhejji, one of the most sensitive regions of the Naxal-hit Sukma district.
The school in Bhejji had to be closed down after people shifted to police protected camps following the bloody ‘Salwa Judum’ movement in Bastar region.
“Bhejji was one of the worst insurgency-hit regions where villagers had to move to camps in Konta, Engiram and others. So, the children studying in the school were forced to move to other places,” Superintendent of Police Sukma, Divyang Patel said.
Notably, Bhejji has been hotbed of Naxal violence and in 2017, 12 CRPF personnel were killed while they were providing security cover for road construction.
“As per the directives of the state government we are trying to re-locate people and a few days ago we successfully opened the school at Jagargunda,” the police officer said.
The students who had to go to Dornapal were now back at Jagargunda, he said.
The school building at Bhejji was re-furnished as students were back at school, he added.
