Setting an inspiring example for police officers of the country, Jagmohan Meena, SP of Malkangiri district, has started helping surrendered Maoists in their studies under the IGNOU programme.
The police official has turned a teacher for as many as 18 surrendered Maoists, including 6 women, and 97 students of remote areas of the district by taking a class of the IGNOU’s Bachelor Preparatory Programme.
The programme is offered by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) to the students who wish to do Bachelors Degree of the university but do not have the essential qualification of having passed 10+2. To enable such students to enter higher education stream, the IGNOU has designed this programme.
“If required, I will take classes every Saturday and Sunday and continue imparting them education,” the SP said.
It may be noted that hundreds of Maoists have surrendered before police in Malkangiri district during the last two years.