Village Hadiyol, some 90 kms from Ahmedabad, in Gujarat can boast of having every fourth of its resident a teacher - present and past. When mostly one finds that the youth wants to become doctors or engineers, here teaching is what one looks for.
Hadiyol has more than 700 active and 200 retired teachers. It is said one can find at least one teacher from Hadiyol in each of Gujarat's 33 districts. At least 15 families have 10 or more members who have taught in schools over three generations
Hadiyol's romance with the blackboard started over five decades ago.Back in the early 1950s, the village wasn't a prolific teacher-producing centre."When I enrolled in a Primary Teachers Certificate (PTC) course, there were about 25 teachers in the village," remembers Hirabhai Patel, 88, one of the oldest teachers in Hadiyol.
Read more of this interesting story in a report by Bharat Yagnik in the Times of India....
