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NEW DELHI: Schoolchildren in a small village in India’s Bihar state have found the thrill of studying after their faculty principal designed and funded a college library.

The aircraft-shaped library in Sivaisinghpur is the primary within the village and surrounding areas. The agricultural literacy charge in Bihar is simply about 45 p.c — among the many lowest in India.

Youngsters enter the library room by climbing a set of steps resembling an airstair.

Meghan Sahani, who for the previous 4 years has served because the principal of the Sivaisinghpur Junior Excessive Faculty in Samastipur district, funded the library from his personal pocket.

“The funding for schooling could be very minimal within the state and it’s not simple to have a public-funded faculty library, so I took the initiative,” Sahani advised Arab Information. “I actually felt that college students within the village want publicity to good schooling and books, apart from programs.”

“Training is vital to altering lives on this rural space,” he mentioned.

The daddy of 4 designed the library himself to draw kids to studying. He needed to attach the enjoyment of studying with the joy of boarding an plane to discover the world.

And that’s what college students say they really feel after they enter the plane library’s “cockpit” and sit down with books throughout its port and starboard.

“The library opens a brand new world for me on this small village,” eighth grade scholar Anita Kumari advised Arab Information.

Her classmate, Beautiful Kumari, mentioned that the library was “an area the place the e-book is the one companion,” and the place she will be able to take into consideration her future objectives.

For one more scholar, Adarsh Chouhan, the library is a spot the place he can concentrate on studying. “At house, you might be disturbed and distracted,” he mentioned. “The library offers personal area and a possibility to discover extra.”

Opened on Jan. 10, the plane library now encompasses a assortment of 500 volumes. The variety of obtainable books is quickly rising attributable to native donations, Sahani mentioned.

“The library has created a buzz within the surrounding areas and has turn out to be a curiosity amongst college students,” he added. “I’m pleased with this improvement.”

The district schooling division additionally helps the initiative, though it says it can not assist out attributable to funding constraints.

“We help the principal’s work and provides our ethical help to the initiative,” Madan Roy, district schooling officer, advised Arab Information. 

“Sadly, the federal government doesn’t have funds for such a library, however we’re joyful that this one has come up.”