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‘I am fine, how are you?’ - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition:

"‘I am fine, how are you?’
Kids in government schools are discovering the joy of learning English, thanks to a novel project, says Jayalakshmi K.


At the Kudremala Government Primary School in Mysore, you see happy children everywhere. Some are taking a test from a dietician. Some others talking and playing. But when they see they have visitors, all the 50 odd students ranging from six to 12 years of age, come running to greet us. Every grubby little hand wants to give a hand shake accompanied with a “How are you?” and an expectant pause for you to reply and ask the same. “I am fine, thank you.” “My name is Mohan. What is yours?” The chatter goes on for some time and we are taken to the sanctum sanctorum, the school’s single classroom that now houses the computer. A teacher is finding her way around the workings of the machine under the guidance of another.

While politicians and intellectuals bicker over the need to teach English in government schools at an earlier stage than is being done, some enterprising individuals have been on the job already. Under the leadership of Dr G K Jayaram, the first chairman of Infosys, and now founder director of ILID, an NGO that imparts professional help to the social sector, these men have been tirelessly covering distances to reach schools in remote areas and impart English education to the eager audiences there."