Adilabad: Tribal Ashram school students, called STARS wearing colourful crowns and a gold medal in neck, took the lead in attracting their own community children who were out of school and also bring new children to schools in many Adivasi gudems of Adilabad district. Members of the school management committees are extending all help to the teachers to improve the enrolment of the students. The teachers at schools in Tiryani mandal presented crowns, medals and biscuits to the children.
It is for the first time, tribal students are trying to bring their community children on the education path as they think that it is the only tool which can change their lives. Tribal teachers are vigorously campaigning in the villages to attract the students into Tribal Ashram schools. The ongoing Badi Bata panduga programme is being observed as festival of colours in the tribal villages with senior students wearing crowns and applying different colours to their palms and visiting house to house to attract the children to the schools.
This is visible in some of the Adivasi gudems and Maoist-affected interior Pangidimadara village in Tiryani mandal is the best example to this. Teachers are welcoming the new students offering biscuits and giving them crowns. This kind of festival of colours is rare and first-time experience to many Adivasi children who were coming out of their gudems.
Pangidimadara sarpanch Tumram Gopal said they were celebrating the Badi Bata panduga as festival of colours as children like colours and expressed happiness over a good number of Adivasi children joining the Ashram schools.
