Volume 15 | Issue 4
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
In class without benches or BRIEFS fans, kids use art to raise funds With deadline a month away, 60 percent guns still unregistered
With less than a month to go until the deadline, the Unique Identity Number scheme has managed to issue tags to just 40 percent of gun owners in Karnataka.
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Struggle for hike in stipend continues Karnataka Association of Resident Doctors plan to hold a rally on September 9 and 10. KARD protests entered their ninth day today pressing for a hike in their stipend. Naina with her students in the school premises. Some students are playing on stones without footwear
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Tanay Sukumar
called “Citizens of Tomorrow”, shaiah. “This is same all over We did not expect the turnout Naina’s students were able to the state. If a school wants to be so great.” The students group of nine-year-old raise Rs.2000. They are still more, there are no provisions treat Citizens of Tomorrow as a “company”, and she has also government school stu- preparing some of the ordered for it currently.” “Chalkboxes cost Rs.650 a been giving them lessons in dents is selling their art- paintings. The classroom that Naina month and each room needs business so that they get exwork in exhibitions to raise money for their classroom. teaches in has no benches or one broomstick per month, posed to student leadership. “I wanted to expose the stuMoney that they earn will be fans. “There are just two bulbs which costs anything from used to buy basic necessities for the entire class, and stu- Rs.60 to Rs.100,” said dents to more and more peowhich the classroom lacks, dents get just one set of uni- Yashoda B.K., principal of ple,” said Naina. “I realized my such as floor mats, stationery form from the school,” she Government Kannada English students are very interested in said. Several children do not Medium Primary School, K. P. art, and I love art too, so I deand shoes. Agrahara. “This alone takes up cided to do this. At the exhibiThe project was started by wear shoes to school. “The school has no drinking most of the funds. We would tion, a visitor offered to visit the their teacher, Naina, last month. “The school gets water, TV, fans,” said Vijayaku- need better teaching aids and class to teach kids money Rs.32000 per year from the mari. “We do not have enough projector. For better mainte- management and another volSarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) funds for teaching aids or car- nance, we need at least Rs.1 unteered for career counselling. The ones who went for funds, which is not enough,” pets for students to sit on. lakh per year,” she said. “Nine of the 27 students par- the exhibition are also putting said Vijayakumari R., principal There is no way to get more ticipated in the first exhibition,” in more effort to learn English of Government Higher Primary funds yet.” There are 259 higher primary said Naina. “We had a sepa- now, after seeing people talk in School, Medahalli, where Naina teaches. “It is possible to schools (classes 1 to 8) and rate stall in that exhibition. Two English.” use funds raised by the kids to 238 lower primary schools of our paintings got sold out. (classes 1 to 5) in the improve infrastructure.” Most of the students in the state, according to K. L. school come from families of Rameshaiah, Deputy Projdaily wage workers and au- ect Coordinator for the torickshaw drivers. In the first Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in art exhibition under the project, Bangalore North. Funding from the SSA depends on the number of rooms and type of school. “Each school up to class 8 which has five or more classrooms gets Rs.20000 as school Paintings prepared by students grant and Rs.12000 as maintenance for the exhibition Students sitting in the classroom without benches grant,” said Rame-
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Villagers allege illegal cement factory run by corporator K. Somashekhar, a newly-elected councillor in the city, illegally owns a cement factory on agricultural land near Kengeri, according to allegations from villagers in Gangasandra.
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City Anganwadi centres have poor facilities Out of the total number of Anganwadi centres needed in the city, less than 10% are working and many of those lack basic facilities like toilets and electricity.
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