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Mrinal Khound
Muhiram Hazarika High School, P.O. Mudoigaon, Golaghat, Assam
Email id: mrinalkhound68@gmail.com

Abstract

The students enrolled in the school are mainly from the neighbourhood belonging to mixed
community affiliations. Their families are employed as daily wagers, brick industry labourers,
vendors, agricultural labourers etc. Children from families of tea garden labourers are
comparatively more vulnerable, perhaps due to the pressure from their families to join labour force
rather prematurely. The head and staff members personally visited homes and work places to
create awareness among parents and insisted them to send their children to school. The school
organized campaigns in the village to create social awareness towards making girls independent
both socially and financially through education. With limited resources, initiative was taken to
provide vocational training, mainly in the area of computer education, on every Saturday. Teachers
are making continuous efforts to incorporate technology into their teaching learning practices for
certain subjects and concepts. The school conducts continuous and open discussions with
community groups on reasons of drop out and how to prevent it; as a result of continuous efforts
students often admit that nowadays their parents do not stop them from coming to school, even
instances of child marriage have lowered as parents and students have become more aware.

Socio-Cultural Context of the School

The students enrolled in the school are mainly from the nearby areas and they are from a mixed
community (TGL minority and General Caste). They belong to the families of daily wagers, brick industry
labourers, vendors, agricultural labourers/self-employed in agriculture sector and their families has to
struggle to earn their livelihoods. Among the groups, incidence of poverty is higher among the TGL
minorities as compared to that among general caste students. As a result, the TGL boys are comparatively
more vulnerable, perhaps due to the pressure from their families to join the labour force rather
prematurely. Assamese language is the medium of instruction.

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