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KARNATAKA

J. A Padmanabhan
Kendriya Vidhyalaya Bagalkot
Sector No-63/A Nava Nagar, Bagalkot, Karnataka
Email id: kvbagalkot@gmail.com

Abstracts

This Kendriya Vidyalaya School flourished under the guidance of the school head and his team.
The team initiated a number of child-centred activities and pedagogies, such as highlighting
periodic table, reading clocks and angles, dissecting parts of a plant, educational activities centred
round games such as snake and ladder which provide learning experiences in all subjects. The idea
of creating ―Herbal garden‖ was initiated and learning activities with scientific nomenclature
brought students closer to science. Vermi composting was also an activity which was
enthusiastically accomplished involving students. The forest department was involved in watering
the plants during scarcity of water on campus. A comprehensive dental camp was organized under
the guidance of reader and lecturers of the neighboring dental college along with 16 dentists. It is
in this background that Kendriya Vidyalaya, Bagalkot has been conferred with Harith Vidyalaya
award for the current year. With the involvement of parents a children‘s play park has been
prepared after making the area playable by filling with silt obtained from the Deputy Director of
Mines. A similar court for practicing Kabaddi is prepared and students come on Sundays too
preparing a kabaddi team to represent at the Regional Sports meet. The quadrangle within the
campus has been marked for badminton

The school head realizes that the primary duty is administration. But those who restrict themselves
as administrators cannot be leaders to form a society.

Socio-Cultural Context of the School

The school is surrounded in area of backward industrial area where Lack of government support for

industrial growth. Scarcity and famine conditions have all along been regular feature of Bagalkot district.
The rainfall is not only meager but is also highly irregular. The variation from year to year is large. The

normal annual rainfall for the district is 591 mm, which is lowest among the districts of the State. On an

average, there are about 40 rainy days in a year which is major reason for the lack of growth of plants and
crops. An analysis of Bagalkot soils indicates that they are poor in organic constituents. The major portion

of the district consists of black soil, which has a great moisture-holding capacity. The salt in the rich deep
block soil of the river valleys is nourishing to some crops particularly to jowar and wheat, the major crops

of the agro based district. Therefore region is poor in yielding agricultural resources.

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