Authorities react to refusal of Dagestani villagers to take children to school

Parents of children from the village of Nichras, Tabasaran District of Dagestan, have refused to send their children to a new school, because it has no water and sewage system. The prosecutor's office has announced the start of a check.

The construction of the school in Nichras was launched in 2014-2015; over 78 million roubles were allocated. The process was over in 2019. However, there is no sewerage facility and water supply system in the school building, Kunakbek Seferbekov, a deputy of the Turaga rural council, has stated, adding that pupils' parents have refused to send them to school on September 1.

The Dagestan Prosecutor's Office has started checking the information about the conditions at the Nichras village school. "The republic's Prosecutor's Office has organized a check of the information about the absence of water supply and inadequate state of the school territory in the village of Nichras, Tabasaran District," the TASS has quoted the message of he Prosecutor's Office on August 31.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on August 31, 2021 at 10:40 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.