The 48-day-long wait of the Konda Reddi tribe has come to an end with the arrival of a teacher to run the Government Primary School (GPS) at Munta Mamidi village in Rampa agency of Alluri Sitarama Raju district. The tribe is categorised as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) in Andhra Pradesh.
The school remained shut since the commencement of the academic year (June 14) affecting the education of at least 28 children (5-10 age group) in the village. No teacher was willing to work here as claimed by the officials concerned. Falling in the Left Wing Extremist-affected zone, the village is nearly 40 kilometres away from Maredumilli, the mandal headquarters.
Responding to a report published in The Hindu on July 30 headlined ‘A school without teachers in Andhra Pradesh’s tribal village’, the Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA-Rampachodavaram) appointed a government teacher on August 1.
