Despite the Madhya Pradesh Government’s high-decibel ‘School Chale Hum’ campaign, the educational future of 135 students in Rewa’s Dabhaura region remains shrouded in uncertainty. As the month of April draws to a close, these students, who cleared Class 8 from approximately 10 local private middle schools, find themselves stranded in despair, waiting for a formal order to grant them admission into the town’s only Government higher secondary institution, now a designated CM Rise School. The situation has reached a critical bottleneck at the Directorate of Public

 

Instruction (DPI). Director Pramod Kumar Singh has reportedly indicated that the necessary order would be issued by the coming Monday repeatedly. However, despite these recurring assurances, no official directive has reached the ground. This administrative delay has left students and their families in a state of constant anxiety, watching the first full month of the academic session pass by without a single day of classroom learning. The crisis stems from the transition of Dabhaura’s local Government high school into a CM Rise institution.

 

The school administration had previously cited priority norms for Government-school students as a reason to deny entry to those coming from private middle schools. In a region that lacks a single private high school, this policy has effectively shut the door on 135 children, leaving them with no alternative for their Class 9 and 10 education. In his latest communication, DPI Director Pramod Kumar Singh confirmed that the department has received the necessary approvals from the ministry to amend the restrictive admission guidelines. He stated that the formal order is expected to be finalised and issued by this coming Monday or Tuesday. While the department maintains that the resolution is underway, the repeated extensions have tested the patience of the local community.