Since June 13, a mystery has been haunting the students of the Government Primary School at Muntha Maamidi village, nearly 40 km away from Maredumilli in the Alluri Sitarama Raju district of Andhra Pradesh. The mystery is about the absence of any teacher in their school since it reopened recently.
Their parents and villagers of the naxal-hit village, belonging to the Konda Reddi tribe, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG), too are longing for a teacher so that their children could continue their education.
Like all others, Class 3 students Sandula Eswarabai and S. Sai Durga are mistakenly identifying every visitor to their village as their ‘new teacher’, for whom the entire tribe had been waiting to open the school in the new academic year.
