Nayan Sinha, the 11 year old found difficulty in commuting to school daily and then he held only 1 person responsible, PM Narendra Modi. Nayan who travels everyday to his school Chandrashekhar Azad Intermediate College from Unnao district wrote to PM last September.
He complained that owing to newly laid railway tracks between the school and locality, he and 200 other students had to cover a longer distance each morning. Ashutosh, Nayan’s father explained that since the track had come up, Nayan had to walk 2 kms for reaching the manned railway crossing at Rajepur and after that to school.
Modi soon asked the Railway ministry to intervene, but A K Sinha, the senior divisional commercial Manager stated that the new railway policy didn’t give permission to construct an overbridge or railway crossing until a request was received by the State Government followed by assessment of site.
Sinha told this to Nayan and has plans of reaching out to the head office of Railways. Nayan told that he never crosses the railway tracks as his parents have asked him not to do so. However, since the alternate route is very long, he reaches late to school and gets punished on most of the days.
“I had forgotten about this letter. Then, 2 days ago, my family received a letter from the divisional engineer, Northern Railways, mentioning that my application has been sent to the Prime Minister. But no Railway official has visited us or sent any clear response to my request so far,” said Nayan.
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