Additional Classrooms to MN LP School at Vellayani in Kalliyoor Grama Panchayat (Thiruvananthapuram District)

Government schools serve the majority of children in our country. These schools have witnessed a decline in their services, and increasingly they are accessed by the poor and the marginalised. But now Government took efforts to improve these schools, in the belief that they could demonstrate or induce an enduring change in the system.

MN Lower Primary school in Vellayani is a Government school which is under Kalliyoor Grama Panchayat. Before 2 years, about 150 students were there in the school. But after that the enrolment of students increased to about 200 due to proper staffing in the school. So the school authorities forced to plan additional class rooms to the school. They approached the Grama Panchayat and the Panchayat responded positively.

The Grama Panchayat formulated a multiyear project in the Financial Year 2013-14 for the development of the school. In 2013-14 they took the project ‘construction of two class rooms and stair room at M N L P S’ using Performance Grant of Rs. 10,00,000. In 2015-16 they took its completion work using the Performance Grant of Rs. 8,98,728. The project aimed at improving the education children receive through Government schools by enhancing its facilities.

The project completed in 2015-16 due to the constant co-operation of parents and now it is functioning well. The project is completed by ensuring the environmental and social safeguard measures. The work was done during school vacation and holidays to safeguard children from dust and to avoid disturbances in taking classes. During the construction time they used net to control air pollution.

Now children from this Panchayat and nearby wards of other LBs are utilising the services of the school.