Attendees: Anita, Sanjeev, Gaurav, Santhosh, Anitha, Sandhya,
Arvind, Syona, Ram, Vivin, Murali
Gaurav gave background of
the project.
BJSA works across 90
villages, they work on awareness programs, work on rights and also runs many
schools. One of the school
Q: How are the children
doing?
A: From Vallabh and Anita
and SanjeevÕs visits we understand that the children had been doing well.
Q: How about the
finances?
A: Vallabh will follow up with
the finances and go over them.
Please look at Q & A
prepared by Gaurav.
- Addition of Rs. 10000 for
teacher training 4 teachers 10 days. Sahabag Shiksha Kendra at the teacher
training.
- Present strength 57->
~100. The number 100 is based on feedback of teachers.
- Most of them are children
of laborers.
Q: There is a private school and there are children going to the school now, will the same children who will come to this school now.
Q: How many kids are not
going to school now?
We will require the database
(backend) for maintaining the SAC programs Arvind, Vivin and Gaurav to work on
this database.
Coordinator the different
activities.
Q: New teachers and old
teachers being paid the same?
A: Training period will be
the same and will be paid Rs. 200 lesser.
The office is in the main
town and not in the village.
Medical expenses of children
who fall sick Rs. 300-400.
Q: What is the PHC access
to the area?
Q: How many students are
in 4th grade and what will they do next?
Q: What will the kids do
next after the school there stops?
Q: ASS also medical setup
Ð Arvind.
We went over the answers to
the questions we had asked before.
Vote: Unanimous.
Draft version of the bill
that implements Article 45 (change of constitution to include elementary
education as a fundamental right is available). The bill is presently open to
public for feedback.
There are also many articles
(critiques) and other documents (stats, info on other forms of education, etc)
and we need volunteers to read the documents and discuss to give feedback.
Since the bill may require
significant effort these will be in separate meetings and will be inclusive of
all groups that are interested in education Ð so far vols from AID and Vibha
have expressed interest in participating in discussions.
The following people
volunteer for reading documents
- Santhosh
- Ram
- Sanjeev
- Gayathri
- Murali
- Anita