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Over 22,000 Maharashtra schools are unsafe, and nearly 24,000 classrooms need urgent repairs.

Critics say the state is offloading its duties by asking alumni to fix crumbling infrastructure.

Despite flooded paths and collapsing roofs, students and teachers persist in their fight for education

In Bhim Dhanora village, students float across 40-feet-deep backwater lakes on slabs of thermocol, makeshift boats in the aftermath of the Marathwada floods that have swallowed roads across Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. In another Maharashtra village, the entire safety of a school relies solely on a single wooden pole keeping the roof from collapsing onto the students

And in Nashik’s Vavi village, Vinod, a crippled boy of no more than ten years of age, trudges two kilometres

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