The students were waved off by their overjoyed parents to travel in the battery vehicle to a high school near Pollachi, which had no bus facility.
Coimbatore: The old Sarkarpathy tribal village adjacent to the Anaimalai Tiger Reserve next to Pollachi has only a primary school and if students wished to pursue higher education, they were forced to walk 6 km. As a result, more than 40 students dropped out of school.
Forest officials approached NGOs regarding the problem faced by students and an NGO donated a battery vehicle on Thursday, worth Rs. 2.80 lakh for the students which can transport 14 school children.
Following this, overjoyed parents of students offered sweets and waved their children off to school in the battery vehicle.
According to forest officials, the first phase of the project is being set up by volunteers for school children in the old Sarkarpathy tribal village. They said that the next step was to arrange such battery vehicles by approaching NGOs, for all tribal students of Koomati, Chinnarpatti, Kozhikode, and Erumai Parai villages in the Anaimalai Tiger Reserve to go to school in comfort.
Forest officials approached NGOs regarding the problem faced by students and an NGO donated a battery vehicle on Thursday, worth Rs. 2.80 lakh for the students which can transport 14 school children.
Following this, overjoyed parents of students offered sweets and waved their children off to school in the battery vehicle.
According to forest officials, the first phase of the project is being set up by volunteers for school children in the old Sarkarpathy tribal village. They said that the next step was to arrange such battery vehicles by approaching NGOs, for all tribal students of Koomati, Chinnarpatti, Kozhikode, and Erumai Parai villages in the Anaimalai Tiger Reserve to go to school in comfort.