At 7.45 am on a Tuesday morning, Devanand, a Class 3 student of the government primary school at Yadavpur village in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district, walks in with measured steps. The morning assembly is on and he is late by 15 minutes. But then, just as he had feared, principal Rajesh Kumar Pandey’s eagle eye swoops down on him. “Go, stand in line and be on time from tomorrow. The school starts at 7.30 am. Anyone who comes in late will not be allowed,” says Pandey, loud enough for the other latecomers to stop in their tracks.
Today, though, the total enrolment in the primary and upper primary sections (Class 1 to 8) has touched a high of 532, of whom 418 students were present on Tuesday.
The school now has 10 classrooms, including a ‘smart classroom’, that overlook a small grassy lawn with plants arranged neatly in flower beds.
Read more of this encouraging story by Asad Rehman published in The Indian Express... (Link given below)
