In Mardapal area of Kondagaon district under violence-hit Bastar region, Maoist insurgents have allegedly issued diktat to close down two dozen schools and threatened to kill teachers if they continued teaching the students. In view of the threat teachers are now not dare entering the villages leading to a complete crash of teaching activities in dozens of schools located in internal parts of the district for the last three days.
According to sources, the Rebels belonging to Kudur Dalam have asked to shut down more than two dozen primary and middle schools in villages like Kudur, Tumadiwal, Becha, Chilam, Kodoli, Amlidhar, Kodenar, Adnar and others bordering Bastar district warning the teachers of these rural schools that if they lifted the chalk for writing their hands will be chopped off.
Due to the threat not only teachers are avoiding even entering the villages where these schools are located but also shying away from lodging any report with the police fearing Maoist reprisal. Sources claimed that at least 23 primary and middle schools have succumbed to Maoist diktat as guardians have stopped sending their wards to schools.