Salaipudur and its surrounding areas still suffer from the social malaise of caste discrimination. But Periyapandiyan had donated a 15 cent parcel of land, worth Rs 8 lakh, to set up a primary school for children in the village, who are predominantly Dalit.
Sandeep Desai, a former marine engineer and academician, is a resident of Goregaon and the famous Mumbai man who begged on local trains to start rural English medium schools across villages in Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Bihar.
Students of Samta Hindi Vidyalaya, Turbhe initiated a cleanliness drive on October 2nd to make a point. Instead of blaming the authorities and municipal corporations, one should set an example by cleaning the mounds of garbage.