Bhubaneswar: A 13-year-old boy has died after falling from the hill while attending online classes in Ringgada District Odisha, police said on Wednesday.
The deceased, identified as Andriya Jagaranga, has climbed the hill near Pandagarguda Village in Padmapur Block on Tuesday for better internet connectivity, a police officer said.
While attending online classes, a large stone, where 8th grade students of the Cuttack school were sitting, slipping and he came down the hill with stones falling on his right leg and destroying it, he said.
The locals took him to the hospital in Padmapur, where he gave up on his wounds, the officer said.
The incident occurred almost three days in front of the Union IT Minister of visit scheduled Ashwini Vaishnaw to the district.
District Magistrate-Cum-Collector S Mishra said he did not realize the incident and would ask it, while the Sub-Collector Gunupur said that many students in the area climbed the hill to attend online classes due to poor internet connectivity in the region.
The Minister of School and Educational Mass Odisha had recognized that only 40 percent of students in the state had access to good internet connectivity, while the remaining 60 percent of the problem of face tissue.