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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
40 Transformation of Schools into Vibrant Learning Hubs