Students from remote villages located amid dense forests in the Malnad region and parts of coastal areas face special challenges during the monsoon.
For instances, when rivers and streams overflow owing to heavy rain, the connecting roads in 15 remote villages in Tirthahalli and Hosanagar taluks of Shivamogga districts get inundated.
Students have to walk on ‘kaalusanka’, a bridge constructed using wooden logs, to come to school.
In 2013, a 12-year-old girl from Sonale-Jeni village in Hosanagar taluk slipped from the ‘kalusanka’ across the Sharavati and died by drowning.
In Nittur Gram Panchayat limits, owing to poor condition of roads, many buses have stopped plying on interior routes. Parents in such places arrange transportation for their children by hiring autorickshaws on their own.