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A Trip to Adivasi Colony at Watchmaram with Students, Teachers and PTA of Vyasa Vidyanikethan Central School Chalakudy and Sreedharma Sastha Poolani.

December 16, 2010 By: SREENI R Category: Uncategorized, short story

When we talk about Onam the  different experience came to our mind. It is all together an different Onam when we celebrated 2010 Onam with Adivasi at Watchmaram ,75 Km away from Athirapilly and – 113 KM from Sholayar Power House. When people are spending lakhs of Rupees for   intricate floral carpets called Pookalam each day nobody is bothered about the adivasi people around us the real sons of the land.

To add something valuable Students, Teachers and PTA of  Vyasa Vidyanikethan Central School Chalakudy and Sreedharma Sastha Poolani patron of Jagadguru Trust Chalakudy planned to celebrate the Onam with Adivasi at Watchmaram.

For the majority of Keralities, Onam celebration has changed a lot. Definitely, the reasons include not only that families have turned ‘nuclear’ and children have stopped collecting flowers for laying pookkalam for their television addiction. Television Channels are competing for advertisement and stars are engaged in promoting their new release during Onam. But channels didn’t take the pain to promote the lost and glorify culture once Keralites once have.   Most of the children of today didn’t know much about the culture and even the goodness of Onam where students of  Vyasa Vidyanikethan Central School Chalakudy and Sreedharma Sastha Poolani patron of Jagadguru Trust Chalakudy celebrated the Onam with the adavisi who suffers from poor access to decent health care and the people who living in abject poverty.

As the Onam where band wagon has started to roll, businessmen in the nook and corners of Kerala are happy, obviously. Keralites will soon set out for an extravagant shopping for Onam celebration. People are celebrating every Onam with new wine bottle available in the market. Every year where Keralites  is celebrating the highest per capita alcohol consumption in the country during Onam season, this year also kerala set yet another record. This year also they sold liquor worth Rs.155.16 crore during the six-day run-up to Thiruvonam. This is a jump of over 17 per cent over last year’s sale of Rs.132.34 during the same period where Chalakudy regains its position once again.

What we have seen is a remote place where there is no accessibility to hospital or school. The women are often unable to reach hospitals even if they want to. They have to walk over difficult hilly terrain for 30 to 40 kilometres before they can get hold of a vehicle or 75 Km to reach the hospital at Chalakudy.

Yet, the region remains a symbol of backwardness with about 80 per cent of the tribal population living in abject poverty. None of the projects implemented here so far has taken the peculiarities of Adivasi culture and beliefs into consideration. The .area consists of 39 houses at Kaddan Colony and 9 houses in  Malayan Colony. The houses is constructed by Tribal department and Award an NGO. Each house owner has got 5cent of land where a house was constructed and its boundaries where fenced with electrical wire to erected along the ecological boundary between elephant habitat and human areas.

The children of Vyasa Vidyaniakethan Central School Chalakudy and Sreedharma Sastha Poolani have learned and experience lot of new things. When the students shared the ideas from Rajan the moopan [Head of Adivasi] they came to know about various  forms of rights such as forms of slavery, right to agricultural land, as well as right to education . They didn’t have land for agriculture. In the month of November –March they collected honey from forest and sell it in society nearby and rest of the days they goes out of their house in seach of  work . The School children shared their food with adivasi families and distributed the Onam Kit to each families. This One day trip is intended to familiarize the new generation on the adivasi leaving and their day to day struggle” says Trust Chairman Mr. Subramanian.

This is an very new innovative idea which should be adopted by another school so that the new generation people can share the hardship of downturns and make success the  Maharaj Mahabali’s majestic tour to Kerala a grand success.

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Mr.Devison Varghese P Principal of Mar Augustine Memorial Higher Secondary (MAMHS)

December 08, 2010 By: SREENI R Category: Teacher's Interview

Mr.Devison Varghese P joined as Principal of Mar Augustine Memorial
Higher Secondary (MAMHS) School in August 2009. He is the Principal
In-charge of +1

Classes which started recently. Having a strength of nearly 1000
students and 53teaching and 5 non teaching staff, it is one of the well
known schools in

Thrissur.

When did you take charge as the Principal of Mar Augustine Memorial Higher Secondary (MAMHS) School?

I took charge of the School in August 2009.
To promote value education, what are the different methods you have adopted in your school?
To promote value education, we have adopted various methods at our school. They are:
a]Emphasis on importance of prayer - starting the day with prayer - before every period - prayer at the end of the day.
b]Making use of occasions to stress on priority of values.
c]Respect for the poor and backward.

Describe the infrastructure you are providing to the students?

We possess two computer labs, a mathematics
lab,Physics/Chemistry/Biology labs, 3 language labs, a library,a
reference and reading room for seniors,a sport

court and a well maintained park for children.

What are the changes you have seen during the last few years in our education system?

a]Education has become a social responsibility,with parents being more active.
b]It has become application-oriented and not text - oriented.
c] Therefore students are more shifting towards CBSE and ICSE sylbus.It is most effecting at High School Level.

Looking at the future, where would you place MAMHS by 2020?

A number of our students would have passed out with flying colours
not only at curriculum level but all at various and remain settled in
life. By 2020 the

school will flourish with better infra structure and facilities for
students.By that time the students will awaken further to find
themselves more

challengeful and responsible, so that they will be able to adjust to the
changes in the society and in the learning process. Only we are afraid
of paradigm

shift from State Syllbus to CBSE and ICSE.

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