Parents outraged after rats bite children at KGBV in NTR District

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Published - February 15, 2026 08:06 p.m. IST - A. KONDURU

Garbage being removed from the KGBV astatine  A. Kondugu successful  NTR District connected  Sunday.

Garbage being removed from the KGBV astatine A. Kondugu successful NTR District connected Sunday.

A radical of parents of students astatine Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidlaya (KGBV) successful A. Kondur colony of NTR District alleged that the children were being served debased prime nutrient and that the hostel lacked due drains and maintenance. Parents gathered astatine the instauration aft connection dispersed that implicit 12 students suffered rat bites astatine the KGBV a mates of days ago. They expressed choler implicit the mediocre attraction of the dormitories, which location 240 students.

“The incidental [rat bites] occurred owed to unhygienic conditions astatine the KGBV. The septic vessel was overflowing, determination was nary due drains and leftover nutrient was being dumped successful the open, starring to squalid conditions connected hostel premises,” a genitor who visited the hostel alleged.

Students besides alleged that they suffered mosquito bites due to the fact that the windows lacked meshes and that monkeys entered the hostels.

District Collector G. Lakshmisha, who inspected the KGBV connected Saturday (February 14) and interacted with the students, accused immoderate of the hostel unit of negligence.

He said that Special Officer M. Shyamala, who was recovered negligent, has been surrendered to the government. Speaking to The Hindu connected Sunday, NTR District Girl Child Development Officer (GCDO) B. Vishswa Bharati said the information of each the 12 students who suffered rat bites was stable.

“Proposals person been sent to the authorities for the assignment of a regular principal, operation of drainage, fixing robust meshes connected each the 80 windows and for raising the crushed with soil to forestall h2o stagnation,” the GCDO said.

Poor maintenance

Deputy MPDO Sundar Lal, who has been tasked with the attraction of the KGBV aft the incident, said rats proliferated successful the dormitories owing to mediocre maintenance. “The septic vessel was cleaned immediately, crushed filling is being done with 150 lorries of sand, chlorination and sanitisation are being done astatine the hostel,” Mr. Sundar Lal said.

The Collector directed Mandal Education Officer (MEO-II) Keshava Rao, in-charge Mandal Education Officer N. Aravind and KGBV main N. Vijaya Sundari to show the situation.

Published - February 15, 2026 08:06 p.m. IST

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