Tent school for kids of kavadis, mahouts starts at Mysore Palace

The Department of School Education and Literacy has started a temporary makeshift school for children of mahouts and kavadis who are taking care of the 14 Dasara elephants at Mysuru Palace. Regular classes for their 12 children who are studying from class 1 to 10 have commenced from Monday.

Classes will be held between 9.45 am and 3.30 pm daily. As many as 50 mahuts, kavadis, other helpers and assistants have arrived from the different forest elephant camps to take care of the Dasara jumbos that have arrived to take part in the historic Naada Habba Dasara festivities that will be held from October 3 to 12 in the city .

They will stay here till October 15. As their children, spouses and other family members have also arrived, the department has set up the tent school near Jayamarthanda gate of Mysore place to help the children of mahuts and kavadis continue their education.

The department has entrusted the responsibility of running this school to block resource person T D Srikantaswamy and appointed S K Manjula as its nodal officer. It also deputed teachers Noor Fathima, Mousin Taj, and Divya Priyadarshini incorporating charts, pictures and maps.