Sunil Kumar is a teacher at Shahjahanpur East Secondary School, Kajrinoorpur, Uttar Pradesh. It is one of the oldest schools in the neighbourhood which lost its relevance with time. Read how this school’s reputation was revived by this teacher’s hard work.

In 2015, when Puran Lal Chaudhary was posted as a teacher at Barua Behad village in Bahraich district, Uttar Pradesh, barely 12 students came to the school. No teacher wanted to stay in the village that had no electricity and was pretty backward in basic amenities. Chaudhary stayed on and transformed the school. The educator who won the state teachers’ award shares his journey.

The Jeevan Shiksha Pahal School in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh provides a safe space for children belonging to the Gond and Pardhi tribal communities to study and make a life for themselves away from the casteist slurs and discrimination they face at conventional schools.

A teacher from Sahjapur Primary School in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, teaches his students all about democracy and their voting rights

Macaulay knew that he only had to produce clerks from colonial India, people who could write in English and Hindi. Today’s education department can’t achieve even that. Where teachers themselves lack in skills such as good handwriting and diction, it is unlikely for them to inculcate these in their students

The Shiksha Rickshaw Abhiyan begun by two young engineers in NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh, as part of their non-profit Bhavishya, has propelled children of construction labourers towards learning.

Kadodiha, a forest village with 35 tribal families, neither has a proper approach road, nor any drinking water source except ‘chuas’, which are two to three feet deep dug out pits with stagnant water. The 21 students in the village school are also forced to drink water from ‘chuas’.