Karnataka HC directs authorities to rebuild within 4 months school demolished for Expressway
The Karnataka high court has directed the authorities to rebuild the government Agaralingana Doddi School in Maddur taluk of Mandya district within four months from June 1, 2023. The entire school building was demolished after it was acquired for Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway project and since past three years the school is being run in a small room.
Citing the example of a train station on the Island of Hokkaido in Japan, that existed for one school going child, Justice M Nagaprasanna said the issue before the court was not ‘just one school’, it is ‘even one school’. “It is, therefore, the people round the globe tipped their hats in praise of the Japanese government for making education even of one child a top priority.
