Badarpur Khadar: Village near Connaught Place with no school

Updated on: Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Even as education has been a fundamental right, a village that is barely 15 km away from Connaught Place here does not have a single school leaving its entire population illiterate.

According to an NGO, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, no one from Badarpur Khadar, a muslim-dominated village located at the border of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, has ever been to school or have seen a school in their life.

"The entire population of this village is illiterate as the nearest schools are situated 6 kilometers in Uttar Pradesh and 8 kilometers in Delhi," it claimed.

The 250-year-old village also lacks basic amenities like water supply, electricity, and public health centre, it claimed.

"The village of Badarpur Khadar is unique in many aspects. It is around 250 years old but lacks basic infrastructure facilities like electricity, water supply, public health centre or even a school," it added.

Pastrol farming is the only economic activity of the people of this village. The income of the villagers is "very low" and the area is flood prone, the NGO said.

"It's ironical that on one hand we are trying to make people aware about the Right to Education, on the other hand there are villages like Badarpur Khadar, for whose residents these terms are irrelevant...They are still struggling for basic amenities," it said.

Badarpur Khadar: Village near Connaught Place with no school

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