The picturesque locale for many of the villages
Inside the Punajuru primary school – the worst in terms of
infrastructure
Punjuru lower primary school – the worst one in terms of infrastructure
Punajuru upper primary school
Kodipalya school. Note the colorful tricolor columns…. This was very common.
Distribution of books at Kodipalya. Not the writings on the walls, the map of
Drama in
progress at Chamarajanagar town school – the theme:
dropping out of school is bad.
Drama in progress at Chamarajanagara town school
Mukundpalli – the best school. In the background is the “shop” in the
one-room school to teach children basic economics.
Teachers and the young enthusiastic HM at Aralipura school. Also in the picture are social workers.
Ethaiegowdanagundi – the teacher is missing – has gone to
rent more chairs for a function the next day inaugurating something in the
school.
Not enough classrooms, so this class is in the corridor. Atleast they have a blackboard …
“Kali-Nali” : “Learn joyfully”.
Some examples of the colorful paintings on walls. The alphabets in red are a new and novel way of teaching the alphabet – each set of letters can form several words. So the idea is to teach one row of letters, form several words from them, and then move on to the next row of letters. The alphabet next to these in blue is the traditional order of alphabet (vowels first, then consonants, etc.)