Mumbai, Aug. 11 -- The deaths of three tribal girl students following suspected snakebites at a residential ashram school in Gadchiroli are not merely an accident but an "administrative murder", NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) MLA Rohit Pawar alleged today.
Pawar accused the state government of negligence and questioned the condition of ashram schools, alleging that despite crores of rupees being allocated for such institutions, students are still forced to sleep on the floor without even basic facilities such as beds.
"If the government cannot provide basic beds to tribal girls, where are the crores of rupees allocated for ashram schools going?" Pawar asked, demanding a probe into the incident and the overall condition of residential tribal sc...