Safety sacrificed: Children risk their lives, cross raging river on rickety rope trolley to reach school in Uttarakhand’s Bageshwar | TOI Original | #schoolsaftey

Risking their lives daily, over 50 students in Uttarakhand’s Bageshwar navigate the treacherous Ramganga river on a precarious rope trolley to reach school. Since the bridge connecting districts was washed away in 2018, the trolley became the only means of crossing. Little children struggle to pull the trolley ropes, necessitating parental assistance at each end. Despite repeated pleas from villagers, authorities have failed to build a new bridge, leaving the lives of these courageous children hanging by a thread.