In parts of Indian-administered Kashmir, imparting education to children is not an easy task due to seasonal migration. But these teachers are making sure that all children get an uninterrupted education.
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00:00This is the only way we can go.
00:30If we could go back we could.
00:35Then we would be taught how to fly!
00:41I would like to learn how to fly.
00:47I would like to learn how to fly.
00:52I would like to learn how to fly.
01:00We have to leave in the morning, come back in the evening, leave our children and everything
01:09there.
01:10We have to forget our lives.
01:11We have to come here, teach them all day, explain to them, then we have to go down for
01:17an hour's journey from here, then we have to go home.
01:20It is very difficult for a woman because there is no one from here.
01:24It is a deserted jungle.
01:31And…
01:37And…
01:39Today…
01:40Off your hats…
01:44And…
01:45Go out…
01:47Who is going to work?
01:51We are not going to work.
01:52We are going out.
01:53We never went to Sir's school.
01:54Sir, we come here for 6 months and for 6 months we study.
01:59We study for six months and then come back for the rest of the six months.
02:03We forget everything.
02:05The biggest problem for us is that the school is very far away.
02:08Our children have a lot of problems going there.
02:12First of all, the jungle area is dangerous for the animals.
02:15Then there is the danger of stray dogs.
02:18Then there is the danger of cars.
02:20That's why our school teaches them well.
02:29I have been working here since 2010 as a seasonal teacher.
02:42We are called teachers for six months and after six months we work in the children's
02:49homes.
02:50After that, we go to different centres, 5-10 kilometres away.
02:53We pass through the jungle.
02:55We have no support.
02:56We are alone.
02:57There is only one teacher in each centre.
03:06This was launched in the background of the fact that we have a huge number of, a good
03:11chunk of population which is migratory population.
03:14These seasonal schools were started so that all those children who are out of the schools
03:19are brought into the ambit of schools and schooling is given locally.
03:24I think through this scheme we could always take the benefit of education to the people
03:30who otherwise would get deprived of it because of their natural barriers like physical distance,
03:38non-awareness and other things.
03:53It should be solved and they should be given everything.
04:07Like most of the children receive in school, they should get food, how ever they want.
04:21They get school meals, mid-day meals, books, bags, everything.
04:26The government should provide the same facilities to the children in schools.
04:31C for cat.
04:33T for dog.
04:38X for dog.