Malati teaches 60 kids for free. Who should pay her?

📍 Purulia, West Bengal, India

Malati Murmu runs a free school for about 60 children from a mud hut in Jiling Sereng, a village in the Ayodhya Hills of Purulia, West Bengal (The Logical Indian, 27 Aug 2026). She started teaching 8-10 children at home when schools shut in 2020, and villagers built two small classrooms of mud and tin. The children learn Santali in the Ol Chiki script first, then Bengali, English and maths. The nearest high school is about 25 km away. She studied up to Class 12 herself and takes no salary. "We don't ask for anything. Only that the children come," she told Education Post (Jul 2025). So, who should pay her?

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State government89% · 8
Company CSR funds0% · 0
Us, the public11% · 1
No one, her choice0% · 0

89% of 9 voters think “State government” — the majority view so far.

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Malati Murmu
Runs a free hut school in Jiling Sereng, Purulia, the subject of this poll
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Purulia
District in West Bengal where her village school stands
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Ol Chiki script
The Santali script her pupils learn first
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