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the school. Beautification began with inclusion of value based paintings all around
the school and value based quotations at strategic locations around the school
campus.

III) PROVIDE ADDITIONAL SUPPORT SYSTEM: The school also invested time in
the formation of a support system for the students by proving counselling and
teaming up with Rehabilitation Centre to identify and provide support to the students
abusing drugs. The school also provided an outlet channelling the excess energy of an
adolescent to a positive output. Adolescence is a peculiar age wherein an individual
is on the verge of discovering themselves and at this age guidance plays a very
important role into shaping the individual into a responsible person and as teachers,
the motive was to give them a platform to express themselves, build team spirit and
do social work, gaining guidance, understanding and friendship along the way.
Keeping that in mind the school created cultural groups, painting clubs, literary clubs
and so on which gave the students a chance to express their talents and invest their
free time in a more productive manner.
IV) REDUCE AVAILABILITY: One of the most important step towards eradication of
drug abuse was to cut off supply and so with the help of Panchayat and Local Police
Personnel, anti – social elements involved in the selling of drugs within the vicinity of
the school were identified and dealt with as per the law. Also in keeping with the
same view a total of 16 CCTV Cameras were setup all around the school campus for
monitoring and also for safety of the students.

V) ALTERNATIVE OUTLETS: To tap the potential of the students the school also
offers alternative outlets to showcase their talents. Cultural clubs, Painting Clubs,
Literary Clubs, Yoga, Various sporting teams along with Multi Skill Vocational
Courses.

These steps were applauded and attended by students, parents, teachers and major influential
people of societies like the D.G of Police, Medical Officers, Advocate‘s from the State Legal
Services.

The involvement of students also saw an increase in the number of students wanting to be a part
of the change and slowly but surely even the number of truancy cases came down substantially
but not fully. So another meeting took place with the aim to curb upon truancy and checking that
students are present in classes from the beginning till the end of the working day. As a result of
the meeting the following steps were taken.

i. Each class would have a ‗Class Record Book‘ wherein every subject teacher entering
the class would do a head count of the students and enter the total number into the
record book; also the teacher would make a mention of what was being taught during
that day. The objective of this step was to check upon the student‘s attendance after
every period without losing any valuable teaching time as it takes hardly one minute

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