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government School: A Success Story

Today, when every parent is running for a seat in private schools for their children, the scene in a
remote village of Bhonra (near Chambal plant) is different. Here, parents from the neighbouring
area are pulling out children from private schools and getting them enrolled in a government school.
Such is the popularity of The Government Senior Secondary School, Bhonra.

The teachers have gone through proper planning and put children in charge of classes inculcating
in them the values of team work and leadership skills. “Once we think students are ours, nothing
will become a burden,” said one teacher. During these years, there is a complete transformation
in the approach of teachers due to our interventions. Students and teachers of Government Senior
Secondary School, Bhonra are the torchbearers of the programme. It is their continued efforts that
has made possible Chambal’s objective of ‘spreading quality education for underprivileged children
in rural pockets of India’.Just five years back, the school was running from a dysfunctional building,
hardly suitable for schooling activities. Today, the same building is a fully functional one, and has all
the facilities for school-going children.

In FY2016, the school not only achieved 100 percent results in the board examination but also made
arrangements for preparing students for engineering and medical examinations by way of remedial
classes organised by Motion IIT institute. Our goal is to produce doctors and engineers from this
remote location. A learning enhancement and readiness programme is also being run by Pratham
for primary class students. Unlike other government schools, Bhonra has tried to incorporate a few
programmes from private schools - annual week, sports week, cultural week and all other festivals.

SKILL DeveLOPMent
We support a number of initiatives for imbuing
young men and women with relevant trade skills
to increase their employability in the market. To
fulfil this objective, we have adopted four industrial
training institutes, which have an aggregate seat
strength of 1200. To keep pace with changing job
market, and offer the youth a larger pool of job
opportunities to choose from, we are continuously
adding new course at the institutes. A large number
of students at these ITIs are from rural areas. The
ITIs are proving to be a beacon of hope for the rural
youth, who can now think in terms of well-paying
jobs and sustainable employment.
2015-16, Sangod bagged the ASSOCHAM Best
InDuStRIAL tRAInIng InStItuteS (ItIs) ITI Award under the PPP model.
Our first adoption was ITI Sangod under the
public-private partnership (PPP) model with the Sangod has notched up a good placement record
Government of Rajasthan. in the last two years. These youth are getting jobs in
some of the well-known companies like Hero Moto
Sangod is now considered a model ITI, and has Corp, VSun Mobiles, Gillette, Maruti Suzuki, Indian
received national recognition for excellence. In Railways, and LAVA mobiles.

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