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Under a Delhi metro flyover, 25-year-old teaches children who can’t afford online classes

ThePrint's Suraj Singh Bisht brings glimpses of Satyendra Pal's small school under a metro flyover near the Y.K. Jhuggi Camp in Delhi’s Yamuna Khadar.

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New Delhi: The pandemic has forced children and schools to go online but there are many students without smartphones or laptops to attend classes. To help such pupils, a 25-year-old man has been conducting classes under a Delhi Metro flyover, with strict social distancing norms in place.

Satyendra Pal, a mathematics graduate from Uttar Pradesh, has been teaching children at the Y.K. Jhuggi Camp in Delhi’s Yamuna Khadar.

Pal began a small school near the slum in 2015, called the Panchsheel Shikshan Sansthan, with only a few students. He went on to build a small thatched structure too under the metro flyover which runs adjacent to it.

The number of students in his school has increased since the lockdown was imposed in March, with children coming in from other nearby settlements too.

Pal takes two sessions in a day and teaches seven days a week | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint
Pal takes two classes in a day and teaches seven days a week | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint
Pal gives masks to the students and has kept sanitiser in the classroom | Photo- Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint
Pal gives masks to his students and keeps a bottle of sanitiser in the classroom | Photo- Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint
All students stay in near by settlements | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint
All his students stay in the nearby settlements, such as the Y.K. Jhuggi Camp | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint
A group of underpriviledged class 10th students who dont have access to internet Photo | Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint |
An open air classroom for students who do not have devices for online classes | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint
An open air class for students, who dont have devices to attend their school online classes | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint
Students sit maintaining social distance | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint
Pal in general teaches matchs, but during exams he teaches English and science as well | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint
Pal teaches maths, English and science | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint
Pal also makes sure he helps the students who stay near by cannot come to school | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint
Pal makes sure he helps students who stay nearby but are unable to attend school | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint
Students have to write weekly tests | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint
Students are made to take weekly tests at his school | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint

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