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Rs 1,000 FD for enrolment: Headmaster's push to save govt school
Koppal: When govt schools are facing a scarcity of students, a govt lower primary school in Hire Sindogi village in Koppal district maintained the same strength due to the headmaster's offer of providing a fixed deposit of Rs 1,000 for students getting admission to Class 1.
He is also offering notebooks, school bags, belts, ties, t-shirt uniforms, and belts for about 30 students from classes 1 to 5.
Guruswamy R, headmaster, told TOI that it's his small service to poor children, and an effort to save govt schools. "I have been serving here for 10 years and I started offering FD and learning material from 2020," he added.
He further said, "The intake of 6-7 students continued for the past five years, though there is an English medium school in the village.
We kept FD for a total of 23 students. As some parents preferred the Sukanya Samruddhi scheme of the post office, we paid Rs 1,000 as the initial amount and parents themselves are paying the later instalments. With the amount, parents opened savings bank accounts in either the post office or a nationalised bank to maintain the FD of their wards.
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Gavisiddappa Mannammanavar, chairman, School Development and Monitoring Committee, commented that attendance improved to 99% after the headmaster's initiative of opening an FD account in students' names and providing learning material.
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"The initiative created awareness about educating and banking among poor parents," he remarked.
Nandini Koravar, Mallikarjun Madiwalar, Girija Yatnatti, Manjunath Mannammanavar, and other students said they were provided with t-shirt uniforms to wear on Saturdays, apart from govt-supplied uniforms. We feel great to study here, they affirmed.
