This Karnataka school has 1 pupil, 2 teachers

  • | Monday | 3rd September, 2018

According to its gram panchayat chief H T Rajesha, only six students were admitted in the lower primary school (Urdu). MYSURU: For the last three years, 8-year-old Nayeema Khan has been the only student at Government Lower Primary School in Krishnaraja Nagar taluk, 65km from Mysuru. The school has only one teacher and was also set up to educate Muslim children. Villagers said the school, one of the first in Urdu medium, was set up to cater to the local Muslim populace.It’s a similar situation at another Urdu-medium school in nearby Hanasoge. Earlier, it had many students but the numbers dwindled as families relocated to urban pockets and some started studying at the Kannada-medium school next door.The village has around 40 Muslim families and the population is around 450 with Dalits in the majority, he said.

MYSURU: For the last three years, 8-year-old Nayeema Khan has been the only student at Government Lower Primary School in Krishnaraja Nagar taluk, 65km from Mysuru. At a time when the government plans to shut schools with inadequate strength, this Urdu medium school in Yaremanuganahalli village has been educating its lone student with the help of two teachers.Nayeema, a class III student, daughter of an agricultural labourer, reaches the campus at 9.30am every day and spends the next six hours there, during which she is taught Urdu by Sabia Sultan and Kannada by Nagaraju.Yaseen Shariff, a resident of the village and a member of its panchayat, said the school was established 60 years ago. Earlier, it had many students but the numbers dwindled as families relocated to urban pockets and some started studying at the Kannada-medium school next door.The village has around 40 Muslim families and the population is around 450 with Dalits in the majority, he said. Villagers said the school, one of the first in Urdu medium, was set up to cater to the local Muslim populace.It’s a similar situation at another Urdu-medium school in nearby Hanasoge. According to its gram panchayat chief H T Rajesha, only six students were admitted in the lower primary school (Urdu). The school has only one teacher and was also set up to educate Muslim children.

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