Hi, With motivation from Diwaker reddy garu, i took a day off and visited govt schools in my village. We have 2 govt schools 1. Mandala parishad Primary school and another one is a Z.P.High school. In total there are around 300 students (my rough estimate is that around 230-250 students are regular to the school, thanks to no rains, children come to school.If rain they are on demand in agriculture related activities on daily wage basis).
As I spoke with teachers, these schools are somewhat better in terms of class rooms and teachers. There are 3 regular teachers and 1 volunteer in primary school and 5 regular teachers and 2 volunteers in the high school. Teachers have suggested me to buy them useful books like dictionaries, puzzles, science instruments like vernier calipers, screw guage etc. I will buy some of them on my own and then will expose the full details to TMAD such as. There are few local issues which are causing funds to lapse. (last year there is a fund lapse or Rs. 3 lakhs and there is a fund of 9 lakhs even now. I am discussing with few of the panchayat ward members about utilizing this fund). well, Here is what i am looking at: 1. school teaching aids - items and location where we can get them. 2. science experiments related items - locations where we can get them (screw guage, vernier colipers,test tubes etc). 3. General books,dictionaries etc - places where we can find good collection and get decent discounts. 4. Any other educational information/items. I am not looking for anything that runs with electricity, as my village schools have no electricity supply as of now. But if you have useful information please do share with me. Thanks for reading through lenghty mail, Usually i like simpler ones. few snaps of my village schools on my blog: http://harinath-photos.blogspot.com/2009/08/bhallan-pally-schools-primary-and-high.html -- Thanks Harinath Mallepally 9391920444/[email protected] Making change http://tmad.org
