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Presently, Padhshala conducts two-hour classes every evening and caters of a batch of 50 students at each of these centres. “The rate of dropping out of schools is high among children living in slums and they lack a motivation to study. Run by a handful of youth, the organisation conducts daily classes to teach underprivileged children of the city on the pavement.The initiative is the brainchild of city-based IAS aspirant Manish Singh.“We conduct classes for underprivileged children at two locations in Allahabad. Most of the students associated with ‘Padhshala’ have the same story to tell. “These children are smart and it is only the matter of seeing the world through their eyes,” they said..