Summary:
Though there are 106 ashram schools for the tribal children, admissions from the remote hamlets are not very encouraging. Our children won’t go to the school,” says Kondla Yerukamma of Chaparayi while tightly holding her three-year-old niece. “I am a daughter-in-law of Boddagandi and I know the parents of these children very well. Tell me children...
it is Boddagandi.”As one enters the front yard of the hut that makes for a primary school in this tribal village located about 180 km from the district headquarters, one can see L.
Veeramma teaching 13 children in the local accent. “Even if there are a few admissions, parents take away their children on the pretext of some festival or fever, and do not send them back..