why a municipal school has a waiting list


Nine-year-old Gaurav Nayak's bespectacled face frowns in concentration, as he peers at the word on the board. "Ff..father!'' he says triumphantly. Gaurav, who lives in the congested lanes of south Delhi's Zamrudpur village, had trouble spelling his own name a year ago. Then something odd happened. At a time when most parents are chasing private schools, Gaurav's parents — a daily wage earner and a housewife — shifted him from a private school in the area to the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) school in Lajpat Nagar III. Within a few months, the difference was visible. Instead of mugging up multiplication tables, vilom shabd (opposites in Hindi) and assorted English words, he began to understand languages through phonetics and learning aids like blocks and shapes.

The SDMC school in Lajpat Nagar is a tiny oasis of learning in the otherwise patchy public education system. In July 2015, the school was hardly distinguishable from the rest with peeling paint and only about 48 students. Only nine were enrolled in kindergarten and the first grade. Then the UK-based NGO Ark took over. Within a month, enrolment numbers had increased to 120...Read more

 

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