The Allahabad Excessive Court docket on Friday took suo motu cognizance of a newspaper report highlighting the plight of 200+ ‘Gen Alpha’ college students in Chandupur village of Hamirpur District in Uttar Pradesh, who needed to stroll 5 kilometers together with their mother and father to protest earlier than the District Justice of the Peace over the shortage of a street to their faculty.
A Bench of Chief Justice Arun Bhansali and Justice Kshitij Shailendra took observe of a Dainik Jagaran report revealed on August 12, 2026, regarding the protest by the schoolchildren and their mother and father on the workplace of the District Justice of the Peace, Hamirpur.
The Court docket noticed that the kids strolling 5 kilometers as a part of the agitation “displays the magnitude of difficulties being confronted by them.”
In keeping with the newspaper report taken observe of by the Excessive Court docket, a number of schoolchildren from the Village, together with their mother and father, needed to ‘agitate’ on the District Justice of the Peace’s workplace due to the shortage of a street to their faculty.
The newspaper report additional indicated that the District Collector had said that building of the street was the duty of the Public Works Division (PWD).
The Government Engineer of the PWD had additionally admitted that roughly 1.5 kilometers of the street was in dangerous situation. In keeping with the report, the work had been held up as a result of lack of a No Objection Certificates (NOC) from the Forest Division.
The report said {that a} proposal price ₹1.81 crore had been submitted for the work and that building would start upon receipt of the funds.
Paying attention to the scenario, the Bench noticed thus:
“The above standing pertaining to the street resulting in a youngsters’s faculty in a village whereby the small faculty going youngsters need to agitate earlier than the District Collector for a piece, which is the duty of the State, can’t be countenanced“.
The Bench accordingly determined to take suo moto cognizance of the newspaper report and directed the registry to title the identical as ‘In Re: Highway to College, Hamirpur Vs. State of U.P. and others‘.
It additionally issued notices to the State of Uttar Pradesh; the District Justice of the Peace, Hamirpur; the Principal Secretary, Public Works Division, U.P., Lucknow; the Government Engineer, Public Works Division, Hamirpur; and the Principal Secretary, Surroundings, Forest and Local weather Change Division, U.P., Lucknow, as occasion respondents.
Further Advocate Common Manish Goyal and Further Chief Standing AK Goyal have been directed to just accept discover on behalf of the 2 respondents. They’ve been directed to reply to the details of the scenario and the steps being taken by the State to treatment it, with none additional delay.
The matter has been listed for August 24, 2026.
The newspaper report was additionally annexed to the Court docket’s order and a duplicate of the order and the report was directed to be equipped to the State’s regulation officers.
Background
In keeping with the media experiences, greater than 200 faculty college students and not less than 50 mother and father from Chandupur village marched to the District Collectorate on August 11, 2026, carrying the nationwide flag and elevating slogans over the long-pending demand for a correct street to their faculty.
The protest was triggered by the poor situation of the present unpaved street, which residents mentioned turns into nearly unusable through the monsoon. College students and fogeys mentioned the muddy street makes it tough for youngsters to achieve faculty and likewise creates issues in taking sick residents to hospitals and well being facilities.
The protesters mentioned another route earlier utilized by villagers had additionally been closed by the Forest Division which additional restricted their entry to the realm.
Earlier, momentary work was achieved on the street, nevertheless, it failed to offer an enduring resolution. In keeping with native residents, the street turned to mud once more after the rains started.
When the scholars and fogeys reached the Collectorate, native officers and police, together with the SDM and CO, reached the spot. The protesters nonetheless continued in the direction of the District Justice of the Peace’s workplace. Nevertheless, they have been ultimately pacified after discussions tookm place with the officers.
Case title: In Re : Highway to College, Hamirpur Vs. State of U.P. and others
