Summary:
With the help of other teachers, I began visiting each house in the tanda to persuade parents to send their wards to school. Now, the school has 103 students on its rolls and Harivan had added three more classrooms. Together with government funds, he also collected donations people around to help poor students get notebooks and shoes. Hubballi: When Mallesh D Harivan, a teacher, joined the Government Lower Primary School in Adavisomapur , a remote tribal hamlet in Gadag, in 2003, there were only 68 students on the rolls. The government has recognized his efforts and will confer the best teacher award on him.“In this tanda (hamlet), parents of students migrate to other places in search of jobs,” Harivan, 49, told TOI..