30 houses in villages near the capital are without lights for 24 hours: where the CM drank tea, there is no secondary school or ST; The students go to study by gopichandaning the knot

"Although I don't drink tea anytime soon because of protocol, I want to go with you to your village after having tea," says state Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel. The CM was present at the school admission ceremony held at Pundrasan village in Gandhinagar. The CHIEF minister continued to drink tea and the villagers went on presenting one problem after another. Officials including the Collector of Gandhinagar and DDO were also present on the side. The problems that the chief minister heard would immediately instruct the collector to keep all the problems in mind. At the school admission program, the people of the village said, "Sir... Start a secondary school in the village. There is a primary school for classes 1 to 8 in Pundrasan village, but for secondary school, the children of the village have to go to another nearby village and if the number is filled in the surrounding village, then it has to be extended to Gandhinagar. The literacy rate in government Chopde village is 78%. Recently, the state government organized a school admission program in the capital Gandhinagar. The school admission ceremony was held at Pundrasan village in Gandhinagar district. State Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel was also present at the event. Bhaskar's team has reached Pundrasan village, 9 kilometers from Adalaj in Ahmedabad and between Kalol Gandhinagar. After reaching the village, Bhaskar's team tried to find out the fact that how much trouble the children have to suffer due to the absence of a secondary school in the village. What assurance has been given after the presentation was made to the Chief Minister? Is there any other problem in Pundrasan village other than a secondary school? What is the condition of Pundrasan village in the state capital? We will know the answers to all these questions in today's ground report. "Sir, there is no secondary school in the village... Do something about it." When Bhaskar's team reached the village, they found that the roads of the village were in a dilapidated condition. The main road of the village itself was filled with mud and mud. The Pundrasan primary school was also seen in the village. Students of classes 1 to 8 study in this school. We first reached the gram panchayat where the village sarpanch, talati, panchayat members were sitting. Bhaskar's team spoke to these people and learnt that any representations other than secondary school had been made to the chief minister. The villagers said that the school admission program was held in our Pundrasan village in which the Chief Minister saheb came in the morning. After the program, a meeting of the SMC i.e. School Management Committee was held. It was attended by the chairman of the committee, member secretary, officials of the education department and parents of Pundrasan village. The Chief Minister came to the meeting and said say, what is the problem in the village? Vishnuji Thakor, a member of the first wali, said that there is no secondary school in Pundrasan village. The children of the village have to travel five kilometres away to get secondary education. If a government secondary school is opened in the village, the students will be relieved. The meeting lasted for half an hour in which all those present in the meeting also narrated the other problem of the village. It further said that since there is no nationalised bank in the village, an account has to be opened in another village bank for dairy salary, widow assistance as well as scholarship of students. If a nationalized bank is started in the village, then people will get the facility of bank from the village itself. After listening to all such submissions, the Chief Minister assured that all the work would be done. For the bank, he said that arrangements will be made to set up co-operatives in the village as soon as possible. S.T. doesn't come, spending Rs. 700 on rent to go to study The government primary school is located in Pundrasan village, barely five kilometres from the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation limits. But since there is no government secondary school, about 80 children who have passed class-8 in the village have to go to another nearby village or even gandhinagar city to get secondary education. Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, who was present at the school admission ceremony at the government primary school in Pundrasan village, got down from the stage and interacted with the villagers sitting in front of him. Here too, the people of the village submitted that if there is a secondary school in our Pundrasan village, the children do not have to go out, especially the girls suffer more. Bhaskar's team got more information from the village. It was learnt from the villagers that there is a primary school in Pundrasan village in which students of classes 1 to 8 are studying, of which 217 are girls and 237 are boys. Every year, around 80 children go out to study in secondary school. There is no secondary school in the village, so the children have to go to the nearby village to study in Vawal, Big Respect, Brickola or even Gandhinagar. There is no ST bus facility in the village, so children have to go out of the village to study in rickshaws or in whatever vehicle they get at their own cost. There are two balvatikas in the village in which as many as 56 children study. The number of villages is around 3000, out of which 95 percent i.e. most of the people are from Bakshipanch. One has to go to another village to collect dairy salary, widow assistance Roads have been built in the village but broken. Mud mud is found on most of the roads. The mud is such that even a small car can't get out, on the one hand, when it comes to walking out. Apart from this, there is not a single bank or a single ATM in the village. The herders who feed milk at the village's cooperative dairy have to go to another village to collect their salaries that come every 10 days. Apart from this, the monthly turnover of the dairy is 10 to 12 lakhs, due to lack of a bank, financial operations are hampered. Monthly assistance to more than 250 widows of the village as well as scholarships received by the students are also deposited in the bank account. You have to go to another village bank to get it. 80% of the public accounts in Pundrasan village have been opened in the bank of the adjacent Uwarsad village. However, the Chief Minister has assured to open a co-operative bank in the village. GUDA lays down a pipeline so sewage water goes into the lake Talking about the problem of the village, the problem of sewer pipeline in the village also came to the fore. In which the villagers said that the STP (Sewage Treatment Plant) has been built in the village by GUDA (Gandhinagar Urban Development Authority) at a cost of about two crore rupees. Through this plant, the work of purification of water in the village pond is done. Through this plant, sewage water is purified and sent to the lake so that pure water is maintained in the fry and pure water is also available in the fields. However the biggest problem is that no new sewer pipeline has been laid to bring sewage water to the STP plant. Only water comes to the STP plant through a pipeline. The old gutters in the village have all been choked up. It has been proposed to lay new gutters. In 2021-22, when the GUDA people went through a survey, the GUDA men said that two tanks would be built in the village, which would be a drinking water tank, one of which would be an overhead tank and one would be an underground tank. Apart from this, it was also asked to lay a new sewer pipeline and build an STP plant. However, out of these, only GUDA has built a STP plant. The estimated cost of which is two crore rupees. GUDA officials have been satisfied with adding only one line of old drains to the STP plant. Only the water coming from this one line is getting purified and going into the lake. Work on laying the new sewer pipeline is still pending. Due to which dirty water of direct sewage is going into the lake. If a new sewer pipeline is laid in the village, the sewage water will not rise in the village and pure water will also go into the lake and the fields will also get pure water. There is also an STP plant in our surrounding village where all the new pipelines have been laid. That is, 100 percent of the pipeline work has been done. When we are going to make a presentation in GUDA, it is said that the work will be done when a new tender falls. The estimated cost of laying the new pipeline is Rs 2 crore. GUDA officials put it all on each other's head but no one does the work. 30 houses in an area do not have lights for 24 hours! In the village, we came to know that there was a chamunda para and a fruit inside the village. Where there are about 30 houses. There is no electricity for 24 hours in these houses. We reached the house of Jothaji Thakor, who lives in This Phalia. He said that our Chamunda is in the fruit field where the bore connection has been given. So we get to use the same light for the field for which the bore light comes. We don't have lights there for 24 hours. At night we have to light candles or lamps. Since there is no light for 24 hours, we have a lot of trouble and there is also a fear of theft. Apart from this, there is a lot of trouble in the summer. There is no problem for farming, but due to lack of light for 24 hours, we have a lot of trouble in the residential area, so there is a demand from the government that 24-hour electricity should be provided in these 30 holes. When Bhaskar spoke to a class IX student in the village and learnt from him what was the problem in going to a school in another village, he said, "I am going to study in a school in Adarj village. In which we have to spend about 700 rupees for the rickshaw every month. If a secondary school is built in our village, we will save Rs. 700 a month. Pundasan village sarpanch Punaji Thakor said, "We have proposed to the chief minister to lay a new sewer line to join a secondary school, a nationalised bank, STP plant in the village. Apart from this, there are 24-hour lights available in the village, but due to low load, they are not able to use more things at the same time in the heat. We came to know from Jignesh Thakor, who lives in the village and is a member of the gram panchayat, that there is also a problem of light in the village. There is a light in the village, but there is not enough power. We had made a proposal to increase the load in GEB. But his estimate was higher. Our panchayat does not have enough funds to pay the estimated amount. About 1.50 lakh rupees. So there is a demand from our government that we should be given an increase in load. The roads currently in the village have been constructed by the panchayat but most of the roads are found to be broken and muddy muddy. Bhaskar spoke to educationist Ashokji Thakor, who was present at the school management committee meeting held in the village. "When the Chief Minister came to our village, he said, 'Although I do not drink tea anywhere due to protocol outside, but today I have to have tea with you.' As soon as this was said, tea was made for saheb in the school itself and saheb went on drinking tea and listening to our presentations. In our representations, we have mainly talked about laying sewer lines of secondary school, bank, STP plant in the village. The problem of overflowing of sewage in the village has become more as a new pipeline has not been laid. Apart from this, all the roads of the village have also been talked about to be covered under the Chief Minister's Gram Sadak Yojana. The biggest problem is that there is no 9th and 10th standard in the village. There are classes 1 to 8. If these two classes are started, then the students of the village will get relief till class X.