Click to play videoAurangabad/Patna: It's celebration time for policemen serving in the Naxal hit Aurangabad district of Bihar. They feel they have won a small but important battle against Naxal violence.
And this battle, they say, has not been won through guns but through the power of primary education.
The team walked 15 km into Lamurahi village – a Naxal stronghold in Aurangabad to set up this primary school that will be run by volunteers.
"Police and government need to take initiative. Or else other groups will try to draw attention of these kids. This is a counter action," said Police Inspector Som Prakash Singh.
This isn't really a state government initiative, but rather the brainchild of the local police station. Naxalism, police say can be countered effectively through literacy and awareness. And villagers are responding.
"Now as the police have opened a school in our village, I will surely send my child there," said Ram Suchit Singh, a villager.
Struggling to make ends meet, most villagers in the area can't afford to send their children to school, and the consequence was evident from the knowledge level of children of the area.
Ques: Kiss desh main rahte hai? (Which country do you belong to?)
Ans: Nahi malum. (Don’t know.)
Ques: Apke pradhanmantri ka kya naam hai? (Who is the PM of your country?)
Ans: Nahi pata hai. (No idea.)
The police feel that this school, the first school in the locality will help the children ‘know’ and counter the blazing guns.
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