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road connectivity to the outer towns            if they are travelling in a train and express

               surrounding the village, which                  their joy of learning.

               discouraged teachers to be irregular to
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               school. The other major issue was the
               children being the first-generation                   Apart from providing the students the

               learners none of them knows the                 sense of woo with the ambience

               importance of education and would drift         created, the TLMs inside classroom walls
               around aimlessly. This uncertainty that         engage students in learning and the

               prevailed for a longer time was brought to      enthusiast learners reluctantly leave the

               an end after the headmaster B Gazan took        school premises after the school hours.
               a challenge to improve the standards of

               school and its enrolment.

                     When he first entered into the school,

               he was shocked & distressed looking at

               the ambience of the school. There were
               no students and teachers on the reopening

               day. Then the worried headmaster's started
               finding ways on how to bring the students

               back to school. In millions of thoughts
               that ran through his mind, the

               imagination of school looks similar to a
               railway station with classroom walls                  In view of infrastructure facilities at

               painted like rail coaches with doors and        MPPS   Veernapally, Bharti   foundation
               windows impressed him a lot. He then            came forward to  organize  a  Summer

               embarked on this exciting thought and           spark  to  train  the  students in Martial

               changed the appearance of the school            arts (Kung- fu) during summer holidays.
               which attracted children and teachers to        This programme particularly garnered
               view that startling thought of the              positive responses upon school and

               headmaster. The effective paintings are eye     created a buzz in surrounding towns that

               catchy and the students pretend to be           the school is on par with the standards of
               passengers boarding the train. The students     private set ups.

               wave their hands standing at the doors as

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