KOLHAPUR: The Satara district administration will be providing a fibre boat, life jackets and a trainer to run the boat for the eight students who have to cross the backwaters of the Koyna dam every day to reach their school.
The Bombay high court had taken sou motu cognisance of the fact that the students - six of them girls - have to cross the water body every day, and had asked the state government to intervene. The students are from the Khirkhandi village in Jawali tehsil, which is located near Shivsagar (the name of Koyna waterbody). They have been using a wooden boat, which they row themselves, to get to their school in Andhari village. They take the boat, despite being aware of the dangers of the vessel overturning, to avoid another threat - wild animals in the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve.
