The District Superintendent of Education (DSE) Jitendra Kumar Sinha emphasised on the need for providing education to the children of undertrials in the Divisional Jail.
DSE has taken the steps on the initiative of the child welfare committee (CWC) Koderma and arranged reading materials to a minor, Satish Kumar aged six years, living with his imprisoned grand-mother and father in jail.The child is studying in class one at Middle School Ambadih under Markachcho block.
His mother died and his father and grand-mother were alleged with her murder and sent to jail. With no one to take care, he is in the jail with his father and grand-mother. Mamta Singh, Rajkumar Sinha and members of CWC instructed legal cum Probation Officer Dinesh Mandal to produce a report referring to the children leaving with the alleged under trials. According to the report submitted by probing officer Dinesh Mandal, there are half a dozen children in jail with their parents.