Pota Cabins - District Dantewada

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In one Pota Cabin structure made of Bamboo Mats and Iron Angles 500 children are being shelters and provided qualitative education. Free of cost education with all facilities and study materials are being imparted to the children from Class 1 st to Class 8 th without causing any extra burden on their parents, in Pota Cabins. Main objective of establishing the Pota Cabins is to ensure continuity of education for the children from primary to middle class levels in the interior Naxal Challendged Villages of the District. Central Government has so far sanctioned permission for the construction of 56 Pota Cabins in the undevided District, from year 2007-08 to till date. Around 4500 Children are presently studying in 12 Pota Cabins capable of holding 6000 children. Assistance of Block Education Officers, Circle Organizers, Teachers, village level Panch and Sarpanchs is being mustered for wider campaigning among the villages to increasing enrollment in Pota Cabins. 4 Rupees 750 /- is provided as Stipend for the children studying in Pota Cabins. Apart from Stipend children are provided 2 pairs of Uniform, Night Suites, Sports Dress, Shoes-Socs, Chappal, Tie-Belt etc. are also being provided free of cost to the children. For linking the children to the outer world and to widen their intellectual horizons pota cabins are also provided with Color Tele Visions, DVD Players, Dish TVs and Compters, Sports material and Library books. Health and Nutritious needs of the children is also being taken care in the Pota Cabins. Nutrion rich daily menus are prepared and are strictly followed for providing breaskfast, lunch and dinners in Pota Cabins. Quality Beds, Blankets and Mosquito Nets are provided for the children in Pota Cabins. Apart from this all the Pota Cabins are periodically visited by the Doctors and the Health Teams on once in a week basis for undertaking health checkups of the children. Proper Electrification has been ensured in the Pota Cabins for the convenience of the Children, Pota Cabins have also been provided with larger quantity of
solar powered table lamps to assist children in the event of any power breakups in nights. Residential quarters for the teachers working in Pota Cabins are being brought up in the Pota Cabin premises to ensure proper guidance and care for the children. Teachers adopt new techniques of education according to the taste and interest of the pupils, in Pota Cabins. In one such effort Administration is trying to develop Pota Cabin Karli as Model Pota Cabin on pilot basis, and management of this Pota Cabin has been handed over to one Delhi based NGO named Paras Paras Paras Paras India. India India India This organization is trying to bring in a new trend in education through means of modern techniques and scitific approach towards childrens education, academic, intellectual as well as physical development of the child is equally considered important by this organization, children are also taught games, dances, dramas & paintings along with the regular academic classes so that the positive energies of the child are properly tapped and the children are encouraged towards positive thinking. Pota Cabin, Karli is expected to become a source of inspiration for the teachers as well as the administration for shaping the remaining Pota Cabins as successful institutions. In all the Pota Cabins children are provided with ample scope of getting acquired with computers they are also motivated to take up gardening in the open space available adjacent to the Pota Cabins in which they themselves grow flowers and vegetables. 5 Inorder to keep up the continuity of education of the children, Tribal Welfare Department of the State Government has also sanctioned residential schools in big numbers through out the District. 232 such Ashram Shalas and Hostels are being run in the undevided District Dantewada for providing free education and residential facilitie to the children. 17 thousand 794 children of Naxal affected villages are getting educated in these residential schools and hostels as on date. 157 Ashram Shalas are beinf run
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