Indore: A police constable, Sanjay Sanwre, has donned the teacher’s hat for some 40 slum children here who failed to attend school or online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sanwre, currently posted at CSP Annapurna, started imparting teaching to the slum children four years ago. Now with the situation demanding, he is providing education to at least 40 children near Lalbagh palace here. Classes are arranged for free for underprivileged kids every Sunday. Also, he and his colleagues are providing children with school bags, books, pencils and other stationery items.
“The class was started here in 2016. I am inspired by my family’s financial condition. In this class, all the children are from the lower class. We are trying that these children will not have to face what we faced in our childhood. It is a small initiative named ‘operation smile’ under which we are trying to provide them access to education to all those children who could not attend schools and access education,” Sanwre was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
Madhya Pradesh: Police personnel organise & take classes for slum children in Indore
“The inspiration for this class comes from our own social backgrounds. We’ve been taking this class from 2016. Today there are 40 students who come here to study,” says one of the policemen pic.twitter.com/JY7f6hqx8P
— ANI (@ANI) December 27, 2020
According to the constable, there were only 3-4 children when he started taking classes, but that has increased almost ten times.
“Most of the children here were employed in various activities by their families. But through our initiative, an atmosphere of education was created here as we started to arrange classes on Sunday. We provide them all the educational facilities which we could afford. After few years, more children started coming and their parents become aware and now they are sending their children,” Sanwre said.
“In 2016, only 3-4 children used to attend the classes and now 40-50 students from class 1 to 10 come here to take classes. We are taking classes on Sunday from 12 pm to 3 pm. Many volunteers and police officials including traffic constable Ranjeet Singh, Police constable Ajab Singh and Anil Belvanshi teach the students. We arrange the competition and give prizes to them,” he added.
Superintendent of Police (SP)-Indore East, Vijay Khatri, also visited the spot where Sanwre conducts classes. “They are doing a very good job here. They are teaching poor children and children are happy here. I announce Rs 500 as appreciation amount for all the police official teaching here. I will help them through welfare fund,” Khatri was quoted as saying by the agency.
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