Tough Time Again!

It is the time for paying the fee for the final examinations. Our government gives us right to be educated up to the age of 14. So when we cross this threshold, this right stands cancelled. 

Government is spending about Rs.42,000 Cr for education, but even government run schools charge fees for admission and examination. Our poor students get bicycles on the name of promoting education in rural areas especially for girls, but without examination they find it a bit tough to be motivated for studies, even if they want to be.

Due to this travesty of our education system, we found two girls of class X in a state run government high school, Udhanapur, Koria (CG), whose single parent was not in a condition to pay their daughters' fees for the final examination. Though the amount paid by 'Parivartan' was a mere Rs.325 each, however it has a value for many of the rural people in India.

We wish the girls all the luck for their examination and for their parent to get a source of income, to get them enrolled next year, at least in a government school.

Program by: K Prafull Reddy, Patron, 'Parivartan' 

Another World!

Courtesy: Mr Pramod Kumar, Khadgawan, Koria (Chhattisgarh)

We are thankful to Mr Pramod Kumar for his generous support for ‘Parivartan’. He is guiding ten V std rural students for ‘Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Selection Test (JNVST)’ which is held every year for the only Navodaya Vidyalaya in a district throughout the country. 

Morning Prayer in JNV, Surguja (CG)

All the expenditure is borne by the HRD Ministry, GOI for about 80 students who are getting through every year. The quality of education there is considered to be on a par with the finest schools of the country and probably the best a rural student can get in the area. We also provided some entrance examination books to them. This may be their gateway to a different world. Thanking Mr Pramod Kumar once again, we wish them all the luck and success!

The Reality Show!

    
By Mahesh Ekka

I started taking tuition for primary students at my home in Surguja (C.G) as a  part of our 'Project Gyan'. Presently eight students are directly getting the benefit of the project. As I am a teacher, I enjoy interacting with them. Like other children who get all the facilities in life, they have high dreams for themselves.

They are brilliant, but lack support in academics at home. Their illiterate or primary educated, busy in day-today activities are not able to help them even when they want to. However, some people still do not understand the value of education,. For them sending their child to school is to prevent them doing wrong things or to save lunch. Sometimes when their child can be given a work then work is preferred rather than sending him to school.

Some never get a chance to see a school

Girls who always have some work at home never get the chance to see the school still in some areas. When I tried to persuade some of the parents to sent their child to school as part of 'Project School', some of them agreed and sent their children to schools, but many were reluctant. I persuaded a family to enroll their 14 year daughter in class I. It was my biggest satisfaction.

New Venture

It will be an NGO by me in collaboration with my friends. Wait for sometime for updates in this space :)