Agartala, Nov. 22: Altogether 35 students were afflicted with acute diarrhoea as a result of food-poisoning in Nabodaya residential school at Ramchandra Ghat in Khowai subdivision, after consuming contaminated butter and vegetables.

A three-member medical team rushed to theNabodaya school hostel yesterday and brought the situation under control.

The school authorities took time to requisition help from thesubdivisional headquarters at Khowai. Sources said the district magistrates are the ex officio administrators of all Nabodaya schools but in the absence of the district magistrate, the BDO (Khowai) Pradip Acharjee was in charge. But it was the SDO (Khowai) who sent the medical team.

Official sources from Khowai said that the sick students were recovering, adding that the matter would be brought to the notice of DM (West) Ashutosh Jindal after his return to the state. Mismanagement in the state’s three Nabodaya schools, located at Kakrabon in South Tripura, Ramchandraghat in Khowai subdivision and Birashimile in North Tripura have continued to draw the attention of Nabodaya authorities in Shillong and Delhi but no action has been taken. The state government was planning to file a serious complaint with details of mismanagement and corruption in the Nabodaya schools to the Union human resource development ministry in Delhi.

Rebels killed: A combined force of Assam Rifles (11th battalion) and police personnel shot dead two hardcore National Liberation Front of Tripura militants today in the Kamalbagan area under Champahaor police station in West Tripura’s Khowai subdivision. The militants could not be identified. Sources said two live grenades and one .9 mm revolver were recovered.