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The school was launched 40 years ago, when it had only 25 tribal students and its classes were conducted under a tree. Today, over 80 per cent youth are back in their hometowns, working for the local residents,” said Dr Amte. Advertising“Despite several challenges and having fought many odds, the beauty of the project has been empowering tribals with education. He said, “I felt ashamed of being fully dressed, when infants from the tribal community were lying naked at cold conditions, in temperatures of around 5 degrees Celsius.” Later, the Amtes even became mediators for village-level disputes, as the tribal community found it was taxing to approach the police and seek legal recourse every time..