Namakkal: At 8:50 a.m.
K Manikandan, a class XII student, departing from his home in the village of Persapcholai in the Namakkal district with books and smart phones.
The road quickly for the next few minutes and the boy was near a large banyan tree in the village.
He slipped the phone in his pocket, held the books tightly and deftly climbed the tree to reach the perfect perch in a branch.
The time is very suitable for Manikandan to enter online classes on his cellphone and teachers in far classes to start the lesson.
Behind him is another student from a village that increases tree one by one and finds places in large branches to sit and attend classes.
Banyan trees in the village have become 10am to 4pm for class X and XII students who attend online classes for the past few days because cellular connectivity in other parts of the village is very bad.
“We tried all other places in the village.
But the top of this tree is the only place we get the right signal,” said Manikandan.
Not only Perapcholai, the situation is similar in the nearby Kombai Periya Village where students have climbed the top of the tree for Get access to online classes.
The villagers say that there are around 40 students from these two villages preparing for class X and XII attending the “top class of trees.
‘There is a mobile tower in Mullukurichi Village and Senthamanalam, located about three to five km from the village of Perapcholai and Kombai Periya.
“Some students will go to Mullukurichi and Senthamangalam in the morning hours.
But our daughter can’t leave.
We found increasing the trees and sitting in a branch easier,” said S Shanthi, a class X student.
He added that sometimes Receive bad signals even on the trees.
“Even if they go to neighboring villages, where they will sit for hours together to attend classes.
And in the case of girls, they need toilet facilities.
So they have no choice but still in our village and attend classes in Tree ” said a resident of the old village of Periyakbai.
This has become a regular feature in the village for students to sit in the branch at 9am and sit all day.
“We will go lunch between 13pm and 2pm and will go up again,” Shanthi said.
Most of these students study in government schools in centbanyalam and ratipuram.