class 5th student unable to write his name

He reads in class 5^th in a state-run school, but he does not even know how to write his name. Though it sounds unusual but such an incident occurred in a judicial court of Boudh on Wednesday where a student of class 5^th came to depose his statement in connection to a murder case but he was unable to write his name. This has startled both the lawyers and magistrate present in the court. The attendance register of the school was called for by the court to know the genuinely of the boy, but attendance register shows Bikash as one of the regular student of the class. District collector directed for a probe into the incident after some lawyers brought the matter into him notice.

“State government claims to have crores of rupees for the development of the primary education, but in reality the education standard of the state goes down ward because of the sincerity efforts of the officials and this incident has become an burning example how the state-run school are running in the state”, eminent lawyer of Boudh district Bar Naba Kumar Mishra said.

Sources said, Bikash, a student government-run ME school located at Khaliabagicha of Boudh town was reading in class 5^th. His father was murdered two years back in front of him and trial of the same was pending in the judicial court. During trial of the said case he was present in the additional district judge court on Wednesday to depose his statement being the eye witness of the case. The court took his statement and asked him to sign in the deposition paper. But he refused to sigh in the paper.

“After much persuasion when he disclosed that he does not know writing his name every one including the magistrate became astonished. How a class 5^th student will not able to write his name. To clear our doubt we call for the school attendance register. We surprised to find his regular attendance in the school”, the government pleader JB Agrawal said.

Sources said, the teachers of the school after knowing the fact rushed to the court and tried to teach him how to write his name. “When the efforts of the teachers became fruitless, the court was allowed him to give his to give his thump impression”, Agrawal added.

We met the collector and brought the matter to his kind notice and requested him to take stringent action the teachers who are responsible for such condition of a student of class 5^th. “How he managed to promote up to class 5^th with out even knowing his name to write. The collector MP Mishra was also surprised and assured us to probe the matter through his officer.” senior lawyer of Boudh, Tareni Mishra said.