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Deepchand Lakhwan

Adarsh Government Senior Secondary School, Budana, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan
Email id: deepchandlakhwan@gmail.com

Abstract

The major challenges faced by the school were infrastructure development which
included no play ground. The school team made a list of influential people in the block
and through networking began to garner support from community, SMCs, PTA and
SDMC. He converted morning assembly as an effective tool of learning where every
student got a chance to come on the stage at least 3-4 times in an academic session. He
initiated activities encouraging gender sensitivity e.g., National Girl Child Day on
24th of January, International Girls Day on the 11th October, Mother‘s day,
International Women‘s Day were celebrated regularly. He and his team developed the
school environment by planting more than 700 trees.

I joined Swami Vivekananda Government Model School-Derol, Block-Reodar, District-Sirohi,
State-Rajasthan, on 16 April 2015. I was the founder Principal of this school. The school is
situated in EBB (Educationally Backward Block) Reodar of District Sirohi in Rajasthan. The
literacy rate in this block is very low. The total literacy rate of Reodar block is 47.89%. The male
literacy rate is 53.22% and the female literacy rate is 25.43%. The block has 128 villages. Only
45% people are employed and out of this 45% employed, 45% people are totally dependent on
agriculture. Schedule caste (SC) constitutes 34.5% while Schedule tribe (ST) was 13.7% of total
population in Reodar. Around 3.7% of total population of Reodar tehsil lives in urban areas
while 96.3% lives in rural areas. Hindu 97.22%, Muslim 2.09% and others 0.69 % (data as per
Census 2011). Caste and gender discrimination is a major issue. Untouchability is still prevalent
in the block. So called lower caste people dare not raise their voice of right on the face of so
called higher caste people. Parents don‘t turn up in PTA meetings. Majority common people are
like suppressed or frightened. Most of the land is hilly. Cultivable land is less. Scarcity of water
is the major issue. The farming is totally dependent on monsoon. This is a block level school
where students from more than 70 Villages and Dhaanis come. This is a CBSE affiliated English
medium school of Government of Rajasthan. The school was established in July 2014.

Describe the problem situation/challenges in school:-

Infrastructure play ground development, plantation and beautification of school with
community participation.

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