Education

At a time when private education is booming in India, there are people like 69-year-old H Venkatesha, who have spent close to four decades working towards the upliftment of Kodigehalli Primary Government School, in a suburb in India's Silicon City.

Every single day, in all seasons, she would embark on a 2-hour trek across dense forests inhabited by wild animals. All for the love of education!

In 2005, Sinha founded the Shoshit Seva Sangh (SSS) to provide quality education to the Musahar children. Since then there has been no looking back.

The enrollment of children in the age group 6 to 14 years has been above 95%. However, for the first time ever, the number of children not enrolled in schools has gone below 3%.

It is said that a good teacher is like a candle — it consumes itself to light the way for others. Udupi's Rajaram is a living example of this famous saying. #Respect

For the past three years, the institution has been maintaining the 100 per cent pass results!

Growing up, the school is a second home for most of us, where the teacher dons the role of a second parent. But what if a student did not leave the first home for the second and was taught by her biological parents?

Ever since he retired 24 years earlier, Shri Krishnan Sharma has never missed a single day of teaching. In fact, his conviction has inspired other retired teachers to return to their schools!

While he completed his school education with the help of the pension, it was when his grandfather passed away that Shashank finally found out just how expensive a college education was.

Residents of the Rahata village had to use makeshift rafts, built using empty oil cans and ropes, and use oars made from timber, to get to Arajpuri.