Gypsies in Dharmapuri get residential school
Tuesday August 26 2008 01:48 IST
M Sankararamanujam ENS
DHARMAPURI: The Dharmapuri district administration and the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) have launched an exclusive school for children coming from gypsy families in Pachinampatti in Harur taluk.
An NGO—Gypsies’ Development Society— had started its service for the welfare of the gypsy community in Pachinampatti. According director S Maheswaran, more than 75 gypsy families were living in Pachinampatti, selling plastic products and birds to earn a living. So the NGO organised them and formed the society.
In Dharmapuri the gypsy community was spread in several places. As it was a model village in Panchanampatti where children were given schooling in residential school, Dharmapuri district administration and SSA administration also considered the plea and started the residential school exclusively for gypsy students, he added.
Maheswaran and two teachers were teaching them. The Chief Educational Officer (SSA) S Suganya told Express that to promote the educational status they enrolled the dropouts. The building and other infrastructure were being launched by the NGO and the SSA would support by providing teachers and teaching aids. The children would later be admitted to regular Government schools.
This was the first attempt to launch residential schools for gypsies and there are plans to launch more schools in identified hill areas.
The gypsy families of Madhu, Anchammal, Sridevi and Guna appealed to the district administration to provide community certificate and form a society for the welfare of the community. The also submitted their memorandum zto the Collector.
M Sankararamanujam ENS
DHARMAPURI: The Dharmapuri district administration and the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) have launched an exclusive school for children coming from gypsy families in Pachinampatti in Harur taluk.
An NGO—Gypsies’ Development Society— had started its service for the welfare of the gypsy community in Pachinampatti. According director S Maheswaran, more than 75 gypsy families were living in Pachinampatti, selling plastic products and birds to earn a living. So the NGO organised them and formed the society.
In Dharmapuri the gypsy community was spread in several places. As it was a model village in Panchanampatti where children were given schooling in residential school, Dharmapuri district administration and SSA administration also considered the plea and started the residential school exclusively for gypsy students, he added.
Maheswaran and two teachers were teaching them. The Chief Educational Officer (SSA) S Suganya told Express that to promote the educational status they enrolled the dropouts. The building and other infrastructure were being launched by the NGO and the SSA would support by providing teachers and teaching aids. The children would later be admitted to regular Government schools.
This was the first attempt to launch residential schools for gypsies and there are plans to launch more schools in identified hill areas.
The gypsy families of Madhu, Anchammal, Sridevi and Guna appealed to the district administration to provide community certificate and form a society for the welfare of the community. The also submitted their memorandum zto the Collector.
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