Team News Riveting
Raipur, December 15
The initiative of Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP), the flagship entity of the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), could facilitate reviving classes for the students in the remote Antagarh pocket of Bastar region.
DAV Rowghat Ispat senior secondary school in Chhattisgarh’s forested pocket of Antagarh is supported by the SAIL-BSP under the CSR head for the benefit of students in remote villages of Rowghat area.
The COVID pandemic has brought forth testing times for management and students of DAV Rowghat Ispat Sr. Secondary School, Antagarh. The teachers of the school were worried about the future of the students as these students belong to remote villages in Rowghat area and could not connect with them virtually for online classes.
Mobile network is abysmal here and the majority of students do not have access to smartphones.
BSP management and the management of DAV Rowghat Ispat senior Secondary school came together to bring out a solution for the students to continue their education. A suggestion to re-start classes was given by the BSP management by reaching out to the students in their villages itself, which was implemented by DAV school management.
A novel initiative was then taken up by the Principal and teachers by starting Mohalla classes for students of remote villages from Antagarh, Rowghat. As the name suggests, Mohalla classes have been started for students of 22 villages, who have been distributed in 4 zones Kolar, Binjali, Barnada and Besgaon. The teachers reach out to their mohallas for teaching them in their vicinity. Each zone is covered for 3 days by the teachers teaching them in their locality.
This novel initiative of Mohalla classes was executed by Principal Smt. Yogita Sharma, teachers Smt. Suman Singh, Shri Nilesh Khare and Ku. Shikha Verma who are successfully conducting Mohalla classes for students of Antagarh.
It is worth mentioning that besides providing other support for the school to function, BSP management provides vehicle facility to the teachers of DAV school in order to help them reach out to the students in their remote villages, so that their education is not hampered. The result has been encouraging as parents and guardians of students who were earlier hesitant to send their children to schools are now themselves taking interest in the education of their wards.
