Villagers in Dagestan complained about the lack of a kindergarten.

Residents of the village of Novoye Gadari complained about the lack of a public kindergarten in the village; their numerous appeals to the relevant authorities have yielded no results. The head of the Investigative Committee ordered a criminal investigation.

Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, ordered a criminal investigation following numerous complaints from residents of the village of Novoye Gadari in the Kizilyurt District of the Republic of Dagestan regarding the lack of a public kindergarten.

The village, home to approximately 1,500 people (including approximately 100 preschool-aged children), lacks a single municipal preschool. Parents are forced to either pay for private kindergartens or transport their children daily to neighboring villages or the city of Kizilyurt, which creates serious inconveniences and violates children's rights to accessible preschool education, the Russian Investigative Committee reported on its Telegram channel.

Earlier, a video message from village residents was published by the Telegram channel "NNT News," which has over 20,000 subscribers. By 4:30 PM Moscow time, the post had garnered over a thousand views.

About a hundred preschool-aged children are unable to attend kindergarten in the village of Novoye Gadari in the Kizilyurt district of Dagestan. There's no kindergarten in the village, and parents have been complaining to all authorities for ten years, to no avail, village residents said. "This is land where a kindergarten for our children could be located. The children's parents could find any kind of work. Our children could thrive in this kindergarten," complains local resident Maryam Dibirova, showing off a plot of land. According to residents, young families have to drive their children every day to kindergartens in neighboring villages or to the city of Kizilyurt. The alternative is private kindergartens or nannies, but such expenses are simply unaffordable for most.

"Parents are forced to send their children by taxi. For example, to Kizilyurt, it's 20 kilometers there and back. I'm a father of three children. We have to pay for private kindergartens," said Shamil Omarov.

"If I send both my children to private kindergartens, it comes to about 20,000 rubles. For our family, that's a lot because only my husband works," said local resident Zainab Musayeva.

According to Zamrat Shuaybova, Deputy Head of the Education Department of the Kizilyurt District, seven settlements in the district have no kindergartens at all. This represents 24% of the child enrollment. "Of course, the problem is very big," she stated.

According to the deputy head of the village, they have been sending letters to the government and the Ministry of Education every year since 2018. The last letter sent by the head of the district received a response that the issue would be addressed possibly in two years. "But we've already received the same answer three times in different years," a local official said.

The Kizilyurt Interdistrict Investigative Department of the Republic of Dagestan has opened a criminal case on the grounds of negligence 1 of the improper performance of their duties by officials of the Ministry of Construction, Architecture, and Housing and Public Utilities of the Republic of Dagestan and the administration of the Kizilyurt District Municipal District.

Investigative actions are currently being carried out in the criminal case aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the incident, the Dagestan Investigative Committee reported on its Telegram channel.

"Caucasian Knot" also wrote that residents of the village of Tsunta in the Tsuntinsky District appealed to the head of Dagestan and law enforcement agencies with a request for help in restoring the water supply to the Lastochka kindergarten.