How a vice-principal’s quick action got students out of the flood’s path

• It was breakfast time at Uttargaya Public English Boarding School when Pawan Sharma received the warning.
• It was around 9:15 am.
• A huge surge of floodwater was moving downstream, the school was told, and people in the area needed to move at least a kilometre away from the Betrawati turn.
• The hostel students were still...