TIRUPATTUR
A decade-long wait to upgrade the Government High School in Nayakaneri, a tribal village atop the Nayakaneri hillock, to the higher secondary level is forcing more than 100 tribal students, including 40 girls, to trek to the Government Higher Secondary School in Devalapuram village near Ambur town, Tirupattur, which is over 20 kms away from the hillock, for higher classes every day.
Residents and parents, who are mostly tribal farmers and petty traders, have been petitioning the district education officials and elected representatives, including A. C. Vilwanathan, MLA (Ambur), since they had back in 2014 mobilised a sum of ₹2 lakh as ‘caution deposit’ and paid to the Department of School Education for the upgradation of the high school into the higher secondary level.
