Classrooms that look like train compartments, a gigantic “snake and ladder” game board painted on the floor and some innovative teaching methods have attracted students to a school in a remote village in Jharkhand’s East Singhbumn district.
As the efforts of journalist-turned-teacher Arvind Tiwary have paid off, the dropout rate in Upgraded Middle School in Tangrain village in Potka block is now zero.
He applied innovative ideas to enrol children and motivate them to pursue studies seriously ever since he joined the government school, about 45 kilometres from Jamshedpur, in 2017.
During the lockdown, he gave three rooms of the five-room single-storey school building the shape of railway compartments. From a distance, the school building looks like a passenger train.
Appreciating the efforts of painter Rishav Malhar, Tiwary said this change has attracted students and they do not miss any opportunity to get photographed before the building.
Tiwary said he has spent money from his pocket to make the changeover.
The school in Tangrain, located near the Jharkhand-Odisha border, has started getting students from neighbouring Jonodih, Khidirsai and Siling villages since the institute reopened.
