‘I Knocked on Every Door’: How 1 Teacher Brought 100 Children Back to School in Raebareli

‘I Knocked on Every Door’: How 1 Teacher Brought 100 Children Back to School in Raebareli

When Sangeeta Maurya first received her posting in a small village school in UP’s Raebareli district, she broke down in tears. Having cleared the challenging University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC NET), she had imagined herself in a well-equipped classroom, filled with eager students.  Instead, she found herself standing inside a crumbling building with broken benches, absent children, and silence that stretched down the dus…