After back to back encounters in the Indravati national park in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, Maoists Tuesday killed two shiksa doots (education messengers) suspecting them to be police informers, taking the total number of civilians killed in Maoist violence so far this year to 25.
The state government introduced Education messenger as a temporary arrangement in remote villages in the Bastar region as hiring teachers was difficult for such villages. A villager, who has completed HSC, is hired as a teacher in the village and is paid Rs 12,000 per month from the District Mineral Foundation (DMF) funds. They teach in primary schools which are mostly run in small huts.
The incident took place in a remote village in the national park area around 57 km from the Bijapur district headquarters on Monday night in Farsegad police station jurisdiction. The deceased have been identified as Vinod Made, 28, from Pillur village and Suresh Meta, 29, from Tekameta village.
