To avoid the long commute, nine students, including five girls studying in Class 9, take a dangerous shortcut across a check dam, reducing the journey to around 1.5 km. Bhopal, MP: Children from Kakraua village in MP's Vidisha district are forced to risk their lives every day by negotiating a precarious line of concrete pillars across a check dam on the Betwa river to reach their school, a route they take to avoid a much longer commute. A video of the children hopping perilously across the wide gaps in the check dam has gone viral on social media, raising fresh concerns about local infrastructure and student safety. To avoid the long commute, nine students, including five girls studying in Class 9, take a dangerous shortcut across a check dam, reducing the journey to around 1.5 km. The shortcut requires students to cross a check dam by hopping across around 10 exposed concrete pillars, each separated by gaps of about three to four feet.