Bridging the learning gap in Assam’s villages
The Hindu
A mission to bring slow learners and lockdown-induced dropouts on a par with regular students is beginning to bear fruit
The two-room Salpara Lower Primary School has been the landmark of Rongsai village since 1994. But the centre of attention has been a shed the villagers built on the school’s compound 23 months ago.
The shed is where Karishma Rabha helped Rajmahanta and Utpal — two of more than a dozen COVID lockdown-induced dropouts — relearn their basics and more to be promoted to Class 6 at the Bodahapur High School nearby.
The two government-run schools in western Assam’s Goalpara district are about 140 km west of Guwahati.

Former CM B.S. Yediyurappa had challenged the first information report registered on March 14, 2024, on the alleged incident that occurred on February 2, 2024, the chargesheet filed by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), and the February 28, 2025, order of taking cognisance of offences afresh by the trial court.