Bengal Teacher Brings Classroom To Students' Doorstep In COVID-19 Pandemic

As schools are closed in West Bengal because of the pandemic for one-year-and-a-half, a teacher in West Bengal's Paschim Bardhaman district has brought the classroom to the doorstep of students.

As schools are closed in West Bengal because of the pandemic for one-year-and-a-half, a teacher in West Bengal's Paschim Bardhaman district has brought the classroom to the doorstep of students. The 32-year-old man has painted blackboards on mud walls of several houses on both sides of Jaba village so that children get to know the three Rs of education - reading, writing and arithmetic.

"Bengali and English alphabets and mathematics problems and their solutions are written on those blackboards with chalk," said Dwipnarayan Nayek, who has earned the sobriquet "Rastar Master" (the master on the road).

The walls on which the makeshift blackboards came up have been given a fresh coat of paint. Colourful graffiti, nursery rhymes and social messages including the need to take vaccines were also painted on them. Classes are taken at regular intervals in the village in the Jamuria area of the district, making both students and their parents happy.

Before Nayek, a teacher of Tilka Majhi Primary School in the area, brought the classroom to the doorstep of students, he had started taking classes beside a road under trees in eight spots.