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Left with no option, tribal students in Palghar arrive for SSC exams in ambulance
Updated On: 29 March, 2022 07:25 AM IST | Mumbai | Anagha Sawant
Earlier, students who used travel by public transport buses are now forced to either drop out of school or walk for 10 km one-way, thanks to MSRTC’s six-month-long strike
Over the past two weeks in Dahanu, an ambulance is seen ferrying six to eight students. Pic/Niranjan Aher
For 16-year-old Kalawanti Gawla from Ganjad hamlet of Dahanu, appearing for board exams is a gruelling task in itself. She leaves her house at 8 am to reach the examination centre at 10 am as she has no access to public transport or well-connected roads.
Kalawanti has to walk for over 2 km to reach the main road from where an ambulance picks her up along with other students to drop them at their exam centre. The SSC exams in Maharashtra began on March 15 and will end on April 5, 2022.
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