320 kids stuck in flooded R’sthan school

Jaipur, September 15

As many as 320 schoolchildren and 25 teachers are stranded in a school building at Rajasthan’s Rawatbhata town since Saturday morning as large areas have got flooded due to discharge of water from the Rana Pratap Sagar Dam in Chittorgarh district.

The children and teachers are safe and arrangements of food and water have been made, a Chittorgarh district administration official said.

Seventeen gates of the overflowing dam were opened to release water, he said Officials said students from Classes V to XII and 25 teachers of a private school located in Bhainsroadgarh were present when the water was released.

Due to the flow of water, the area around the school building got inundated, they said. “The children and teachers are safe and the school management has shifted them to another building of the school. They can be rescued when the water level comes down,” the district administration official said. If the water level did not come down by Monday, they might be airlifted, he said. — OC