PARADIP: Following the intervention of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), the district administration on Monday withdrew forces from four schools at the Posco project site.The police have been occupying most of the classrooms in Balitutha Upper Primary School, Bijipur Upper Primary School, Kujang High School and Badagabapur Primary School at Badagabapur village for more than a year now. They were deployed at the project site to maintain law and order during the land acquisition process. The students, on the other hand, have been enjoying a forced indefinite holiday. The worried parents had then requested the district collector, education department authority and also filed a PIL in the Orissa High Court seeking eviction of policemen from the classrooms, but in vain. The school headmasters had also expressed reservations over the district administration’s decision to allow security forces to reside in the schools. Sources said, the students were scared to enter the school stocked with arms. Paradip SDPO Santanu Das said the forces vacated the four schools following directions from the State Government. NCPCR team led by Yogesh Dube had requested the Chief Secretary to withdraw police forces after visiting Balitutha school. Ersama BDO Murlidhar Swain said policemen residing in the schools at Balitutha, Bijipur and Kujang have been shifted to Balitutha panchayat office, Jagatsinghpur barrack and community centre at Kujang respectively.
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