Kolkata: When the school was closed in West Bengal because the pandemic for one and a half years, a teacher in the district of Paschim Bardhaman had brought classrooms to students.
The 32-year-old man had painted a blackboard on the wall of the mud from several houses on both sides of the Jaba village so that children knew three education hospitals – reading, writing and arithmetic.
Safe! You have managed to throw your votelogin to see the results of “Bengali and alphabetical English and the problem of mathematics and the solution was written on the board with chalk,” said Dwipnarayan Nayek, who has won the Sobriquet “Teacher Rastar” (The Master on the Road “).
The walls of the emergency blackboard appeared have been given a layer of fresh paint.
Colorful graffiti, Rima Nurseries and social messages including the need to take vaccines are also painted on them.
Classes are taken regularly in villages in the Jamuria region in the district, making their students and parents happy.
Before Nayek, a Tilka Majhi elementary school teacher in the area, brought the classroom to the threshold of the student’s door, he began to take the class beside the road under the tree in eight spots.
“But attending classes under the tree is not feasible for everyone because of the presence of insects.
In addition, some of them must help elders in agricultural activities.
So I decided to draw a whiteboard on the wall of their home and take the class there,” he says.
Initially, there were only two students and now their numbers have crossed 100.
Nayek also considers it important to fight superstition among the villagers.
Parents think that those infected by malaria are owned by ghosts.
“I have managed to bring a microscope to class in the village and show them malaria viruses.
I show them how the flowers bloom and how the trees grow.
Most of these children are in the main stage and they are first generation students,” they said.
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“I have found my own teaching manual for them,” Nayek smiled when he asked his disciples, many of them girls, to sing poems written by him on the need to wash their hands regularly, and clapping after each row.
Nayek does not charge anything from his students for service and attract all its resources.
He also received help from family and friends.
“I hope I will be able to ensure zero drop out of school in the area when school will be reopened.
But I want to continue the current initiative,” he said.
Rimki Oraon, a sixth grade student said they were sad when the school was closed because of Corona.
“But then, Pak started taking classes on the road and then at our doorstep.
We are very happy now.”
Sital Baski, a villager, said they were grateful to Nayek to advance to teach children when the school was closed.
“The teacher’s initiative was commendable.
We are by his side,” said Jamuria Mla Hareram Singh.