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                     The government schools of

               Telangana as a mission provides a
               conducive environment for the students
               to learn with joy. There are schools in

               which the headmaster and the teaching

               staff struggled to protect schools from
               sinful acts.

                                                                  INSTALLATION OF CC TV CAMERAS
                                                                                IN SCHOOL

                                                                     Another challenge was gender
                                                               bias. The gender bias is high up in the
                                                               minds of people in the community. The

                                                               boys were sent to school whereas the girls
                                                               were made to sit at home. The locals
                                                               believed that the ultimate destiny of girls

                                                               was to get married and therefore tried to

                     Here is the story of ZPHS Nikalpur        crush their aims and dreams. In view of it,
               which raised its flag of success by             the school staff conducted a special

               crossing the hurdles with ease. Earlier, this   awareness programme to cut down the
               school has no compound wall and thus            meaning less tradition that was followed
               became a hub for carrying out some              for decades.

               illegal activities. The young people of the           Innovative thinking not just help to
               village sit together to smoke and talk about    improve academics but its execution in
               gangsters. Knowing about it, the parents        every aspect marks the level of creativity

               stopped sending their children to school        and intelligence. As there is no compound
               especially the girl parents felt unsafe. On     wall, the passersby throw the used plastic
               considering the issue, CC cameras were          things like bottles, covers etc on school

               installed on school premises to identify        premises. The students and staff decided
               the youth entering the campus and take          to make the best out of the garbage found

               action against them. This initiative gave       in the premises. They shaped the plastic
               parents the confidence to send their            waste into pots and boxes which were
               children to schools.                            utilized for plantation and storage purpose

                                                               in the school.

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