Effect of the Children committee in schools:

Tiffin committee member distributing biscuits & sweets

Swanirvar runs four Primary schools in the following four villages- Chandalati(I-IV), Fatullapur (I-IV), Andharmanik(I-IV) and Matia (I-II) . There are more than 450 students in these four schools. We have at least 8 types of children committees in our schools. These students committees with responsibility for 1) cleanliness, 2) sports, 3) water, 4) library, 5) notice, 6) Sahitya Sabha , 7) mid day meal , 8) seed bank etc. The evaluation committee (also a kind of children committee) looks after the activities of all the committees. In the monthly assessment meeting (hold on last Saturday of each month) the president and the secretary of evaluation committee sit down together with the secretaries and assistant secretaries of all the committees to discuss the works done by every committee. The other students of all classes present there. Secretaries of all the committees read out the observations and monthly assessment report made by the committee. They point out various information, success, failure and opinion based on their learning. The students of other committee do not always agree with the secretaries. So sometime they are in debate among themselves and many suggestions and different opinions come out. The secretary of evaluation committee takes notes and later resolutions are being taken. A sense of co-operation, leadership, decision making skill, judgment skill, democracy and reporting skill develop among students are being seen. We have been able to introduce such children’s committees in 19 govt. primary schools (14 Primary and 5 SSK centre).

        The effects of these committees on students are being seen. Many of our children are now studying in High schools and they are doing many remarkable works beside their regular study. They are not only showing their group activities in schools but also in their localities. Some of them have became natural leaders in their societies. Here are some examples…
        Safiul Hassan an ex –student of Chandalati Swanirvar Primary school. At present he is in class-V at Mandra High School. Now he has given the responsibilities to control and manages daily prayer of all students.

Library committee in book distribution

        Rittika Biswas, ex student of Magurkhali and now studying in class IX at Rudrapur Radha Ballav High School. She had an active role in the children committee. She found that all the washrooms of her present school are dirty and not being cleaned regularly. She persuaded some of her classmates to form a cleaning committee. After that, they met their principal and asked for some detergents and some utensils also requested him to introduce dustbin for each room. The principal immediately accepted them and had purchased dustbins for the entire schools.

Reported by,
Prosanto Mondal
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