Wednesday, April 7, 2010

VIDYALAYA OPENED FOR LABOURERS




(Students of Jeevan Mukt Nishulakh Vidyalaya, Sector 9, Panchkula, educate labourers to mark International Literacy Day at Labour Chowk in Sector 16, Panchkula, on Thursday. Tribune photo by Pankaj Sharma)


Tribune News Service

Panchkula, September 8, 2004.

Jeevan Mukt Nishulk Vidyalaya today embarked upon a unique project to celebrate Literacy Day, by opening a branch of their free school at Labour Chowk and enrolling labourers as students.

A group of students of Jeevan Mukt Nishulk Vidyalaya, led by Mr Mansa Ram Ahuja and Mr O.P. Seth, went to the Labour Chowk in the morning. They talked to labourers and emphasised on the need for literacy. They said that an open school would be run at Labour Chowk and those willing to gain knowledge could enrol themselves in it.

As many as 35 daily wagers today took basic lessons from students of the Vidyalaya. They promised to join the classes, on the days when they were not hired for work. “Three young children, who accompanied their parents to work as labourers, too, enrolled themselves in the school which would run from 9. 30 am to 11.30 am daily,” informed Mr Ahuja.

He said teachers would be hired for this school by tomorrow, and the lessons would begin from Saturday onwards. This is the 13th school opened by Jeevan Mukt Nishulk Vidyalaya in the township today. This NGO has been running open schools for children of the lower socio- economic strata. Most of the children being taught in open schools run by this NGO are beggars, or rag pickers.

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