A social policing event was held at Karso Middle School, where police distributed 100 blankets, 50 copies, half a kg toffees, dozen packets of biscuits and equal number of sweaters among the students and locals.
Just a dozen girl students were there in the school as the boy students had ran in fear the moment the school teacher told them that police were to come on Tuesday. Dhananjay Pathak a teacher said, “Korwa tribe students and Yadav community students are enrolled in the school. The Korwa students on learning that police are to come left the school in a great hurry. They still fear police like anything.”
There were elderly women only sitting outside the classrooms in this programme. Men were there, who could be counted on fingers only.
RR Shahi circle inspector of police Chainpur said, “We are your police, not of British time. That British police time has gone. We are at your service. We are to help you.”
SDPO Sandip Kumar Gupta asked the gathering if their fear of police is due to their any soft corner for the extremists the gathering did not respond at all.
Gupta asked them to rise against extremism and take help from the police.
Karso village is a cut off village where there is no road worth the name for 15 Kms out of the stretch of 35 Kms from Daltonganj. Yadavs and primitive tribe group Korwas live here.
Finding no source of clean water here Gupta asked the gathering to drink only boiled water and the gathering heard it with attention. There is no matriculate Korwa in this village of more than 500 people.
A young woman who became a widow three years ago told police that she is not covered under widow pension scheme as yet.
A visibly pained Gupta asked the mukhiya Sheo Narain Yadav as to how this happened to which Yadav said, “Sir death certificate of her husband has not been made so far!”
Now it is again too difficult as death certificate not readied within 11 months of the death is to be passed through the SDO which is a very cumbersome affair said sources.