Get Real India: School runs under tree for nearly 20 years in Bihar's Darbhanga

India Today

In this edition of Get Real India, watch this story from Darbhanga, Bihar, where a government primary school in Godhiyari village has been operating without a building for nearly two decades.

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00:00Let's turn to our Get Real India story where we bring you stories from the ground across the country that often get lost in the noise of news.

00:08Today we turn to Darbhanga in Bihar where in an age of digital classrooms and smart education,

00:15a government school in Bihar's Darbhanga district is telling a very different story.

00:20Here students have been learning under the open skies with a makeshift blackboard and no basic facilities for nearly 20 years.

00:27Get Real India.

00:30This is not a picnic, it is a school.

00:41About 5 kilometers from Bihar's Darbhanga town, under the shade of a tree in Godhari village,

00:47this government primary school has been functioning in open air since 2006.

00:53The school has no building and no furniture.

00:56The principle, making the best of nothing, has painted the cement circle around a tree black and has created makeshift blackboards

01:07for classes 1 to 5.

01:10There are only three teachers for 5 classes.

01:15There are only three teachers for 5 classes.

01:28Often, one teacher handles two grades.

01:32Sometimes, even students teach their juniors.

01:37During rainy season, the school shuts down.

01:41On bright sunny days, the students shift their position to stay in the tree's shadow.

01:45Despite these odds, the school sees over 90 percent attendance.

02:05Midday meals are somehow prepared in a nearby community hall.

02:09But the irony, the school falls in the constituency of JDU MLA and Bihar's Social Welfare Minister Madan Sahani.

02:17The school is surviving on hope, innovation and the will to learn, but is in desperate need of help.

02:44Just five kilometers from Darbhanga City, this Jugadu school, as you can say,

02:50is a stark reminder that education crisis still persists in rural India.

02:56With Prehalat Kumar, Bureau Report, India Today.

02:59We have plenty of debates in this country about history, textbooks, language of instruction, or medium of instruction.

03:12When will we debate on the quality of schools?

03:15Equal opportunity of quality education is a must for India to move to a Viksit Bharat.

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03:35Who is that?

03:36We have a freedom of all such guys in play.

03:42We'll wait for a whole neighborhood.

03:44We're just trying to understand that education is a must for you.

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