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might lead to the opposition while the entire school building was changed with attractive colours.
On the contrary I involved myself to the change. On seeing my consistent involvement, my
friends and the old students from the community joined their supporting hands. There, the
change was initiated!

I approached nearly 40 likeminded teachers to paint our school walls with colourful attractive
and informative murals. There was no technical teacher to strengthen the co curricular skills of
our students. So I united technical teachers from various schools and some old students to
develop co curricular skills during holidays. This innovative practice doubled the success in a
way, our students as well as our teachers to enhance their skills up to their level. It gave our own
school teachers a great chance, to enhance their professional development too. Comparing the
previous years our students achieved many prizes in co curricular competitions outside the
school. As we decided, we gave the opportunity to the community to visualize the drastic growth
of our achievements by conducting 5 days Children‘s Joy Fest in a grand manner. Usually
villagers are anxious to take part in the competitions such as singing, cooking and art work. In
those five days we captured their presence in our school premises through various shows (Magic,
Puppetry, Film show, Drama and Cultural) and competitions for public. So I had a great
opportunity to showcase our students‘ achievements easily in those 5 days.

This event made a turning point in our transformation because the parents of our school students
were satisfied and started sharing the school‘s progress. On the other hand parents of other
school students showed keen interest to know the happenings of our school. The whole
community started to develop the trust on our school. But still we didn‘t achieve the expected
level of enrolment. When I questioned myself, what would be the reason for less enrolment I
realized there should be some more desirable changes to satisfy the community. When I enquired
I came to know parents of our students were satisfied but others hesitated to enroll their children
comparing the 10 private schools nearby and listing out the demerits of our school such as lack
of smart classrooms, playground, library, good sanitation of school and students and grand
celebrations.

Unless it‘s teamwork an institution cannot succeed. So I tried up to my level best to identify and
utilize the feasible resources from the community. As a team we worked together to make all the
classrooms print rich and entire school premises too, not only to attract but also to stimulate a
positive vibration to learn. It is the basic duty of the school to pave way to the growth of physical
development. In the circumstance of unavailability of playground, I tried for the solution. I came
to know about the encroachment of Govt. land near the school by the private party and I cleared
it with community support. To make the ground safer for our students, I approached the MLA of
our constituency. He allotted nearly 7 lakhs from his fund to level the ground and constructing
compound wall all the sides. Now our students have playground to enjoy!

Since the kitchen has been functioning in our school, I changed the gloomy kitchen into a
glowing one by renovating with tiles. Though we provided healthy and hygienic food students
used to have their lunch in the open area because there was no place for dining. My repeated

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