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came to know that the families cannot            children do not enrol in the school.
            afford the loss of income or labour              Especially the girl children were engaged

            contribution of their children, so their         in sibling care and house hold works.




















                                   BEFORE                                         AFTER


                  In view of it, the HM took certain         the compond wall. After construction of
            initiatives to turn around things.  Initially,   the compond wall the school environment
            it was a challenge for the school                was completely changed by plantation.
            authorities to generate confidence in the

            parents to send their children to
            government school.  The HM started door
            to door campaign to speak with the

            parents with the help of school staff. She
            took the help of sarpanch and SMC
            chairman to motivate the parents. As a
            result there is a change found in  parents
            mind set and they were ready to send their

            children to school.                                   To improve the attendance
                                                             percentage of the students the Head
                  Later, the new challenge for the
            school authorities was to retain  the            Mistress created the environment joyful
            enrolled children. For it, the head mistress     by painting all classrooms, outer walls

            decided to improve the  school ambience          including compound wall with subject and
            i.e to construct  the compond wall, to           natural resource awareness figures. Such
            improve and maintain hyegiene to                 kind of ambience created excitement in

            children. She conducted regular SMC              the children. Now the children love to
            meetings and explained the needs of the          come to school. Many of the they come an
            school. The committe members and the             hour before the school time. They engage
            village sarpanch helped to get  funds for        in self- learning from the learning aids


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