Maharashtra villagers donate land raise money through crowdfunding to upgrade expand government-run school-Education News

In a bid to ensure a better future for their children, the residents of a village in Maharashtra ‘s Beed district pooled resources, including money and land, on their own instead of banking on the government to upgrade a Zilla Parishad-run school that needed urgent repairs and lacked space to accommodate students.

The residents of Pokhari village, located around 160 km from Aurangabad city, say they have so far raised Rs 39 lakh through crowdfunding with four of them donating more than one-acre land for the expansion of the school. Children from Class 1 to 7 study in this school. The upgradation and construction work, which began in 2018, got hampered by the pandemic in 2020. But it is likely to be completed by the next academic year. Around 1,300 people reside in this village and most of them are farmers and sugarcane workers.  Talking to PTI, one of the residents Ram Falke said, “There is a Zilla Parishad-run school in the village, where local children study. It has four classrooms and the condition of two of them had turned very bad and needed urgent repairs. Although the Maharashtra government agencies gave some funds for the repair work, it was not enough. The school also faced a space crunch.” Therefore, the villagers launched a movement of constructing a new building for the school so that the students don’t have to face any problem, he said.

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