Children of Government middle school Rajwadeeh did the most innovative thing.  Around 14 students, including two boys of this school, prepared paper bags out of the used newspapers that this school had accumulated following its monthly buying from the hawker.

Sources said there cannot be any better way to spread the message of ‘discard single use plastic’ than these children of lesser Gods showing the way.

The brain behind this innovation in a Government middle school was its acting head master Parshuram Tiwari (49) who made teaching his ‘life and bread’ in 1994 by becoming a government teacher and since then he is a teacher activist. Tiwari said, “I saw the bundles of used news papers of our school lying in a corner. An idea came to me as to why these used copies of news papers be not utilized for paper bags.” He said, “I consulted my two Government lady teachers working in my school Priyanka Kumari and Poonam Rani and discussed this idea.  They lapped it up. Next day they brought scissors from their homes. Paste and gum we had in our school.” Students were told of this paper bag making.

There was no pressure on any student. 12 girl students volunteered and just two boys for this make in school! Tiwari said in one day the students made 150 paper bags.

Lady teachers Priyanka and Poonam first showed the skill of paper bag making and the students made no mistake. Asked as to what was done with these 150 paper bags Tiwary said, “We decided to give it free to a village sweets seller Bhagat ji with a note that from now he would not use polythene for packing samosas, nimkee etc.” Tiwary made it clear saying this was none of their any commercial activity but to put across a message that there is alternative to single use plastic and our children did it to prove it. Sources said Tiwary has a knack of doing new things.

 He visits houses of his enrolled students who skip classes for weeks, meets their parents, convinces them to send their children to school regularly and he takes their signature or thumb impression on the register that he carries with him during this kind of house visit of his students to silence skeptics who may say he never visited the parents.

Tiwary said, “There is no issue of drop out in his school which has 160 students enrolled. I visit houses from where students just stop coming over to our school for days and weeks. I visit such houses to know things first hand.”

Asked about the reaction of the parents of the students whom he calls upon he said, “First it is of surprise.

Then of fear if their ward has done something wrong on the campus but when I tell them that I have come to re connect their children to school they flash a big sense of relief and guilt too promising to send their children to school from the very next day.”