Complete makeover, a class apart
New Indian ExpressPUDUCHERRY: Walls etched with graffiti, the putrid stench of dirty toilets, classrooms with crumbling walls and pillars revealing rough patches of red bricks and switchboards with wires hanging out. Several parents did not bat an eye and transferred their wards from the school, leaving 460 students spread across classes 6 to 12 at the mercy of the decrepit school. After gathering inputs from students, he tackled the sanitation issue first by mobilising resources from within the community, alumni, and his personal network, raising Rs 40,000 to repair the toilets and another Rs 2.65 lakh for other sanitation facilities, eliminating the stench that had previously permeated the school. Karunagaran further raised an additional Rs 7 lakh, with Rs 5 lakh using the government’s SSA funds to renovate the main school building and with a fresh coat of blue paint, the colour picked by the students. “We manage by assigning more classes to available subject teachers, use the vocational stream teachers as well as special teachers for Children with Special needs,” said Karunagaran.
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