No dinner at Bihar school hostel, 55 girls run away

Twenty of the 55 students who ran away from a state-run residential school in Bihar’s Jamui district have returned to the hostel by Monday morning, a government official said. The girls ran from the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) in Sono block of the district past Saturday midnight after the authorities failed to serve dinner.

Jamui district education officer Kapil Dev



Tiwari said Seema Kumari, the distinct programme officer of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, has been told to hold an inquiry.

The girls were classes 9-12 students.

Seema Kumari confirmed that the girls ran away because there was no dinner on Saturday night, “About 20 girls have returned till Monday morning,” she said, describing the incident as a security lapse.