My childhood school

This is the story about an engineer who contributed to the reconstruction of his school.
Prajwal returned to India after spending 10 years in US. He did his MS in US and got placed in a silicon valley. He didn’t like the mechanical life in Uncle Sam country. But the only reason he had been that many years is for the money. Once his kids were started going to elementary school, he decided to settle his rest of life in India, so he applied in a company which is in Bangalore.
Before joining the company, he went to his native place to spend few days. After visiting all the relative houses and friend houses, he had left only 2 days to see the town. He did most of his schooling in that town. Though it had been so long since he visited the town, there is not much change. He surprised and wondered why there is not much development. He took a two-wheeler from his relative to see the town. First he decided to visit his school.
He approached the school, he was bit excited to see it after these many years. When he was studying engineering, he never thought of visiting it, but now he got a time. That day was a weekday, so school was open.
He stunned after seeing the school premises. The situation in that school was very distressing. The tiled houses in school were almost deteriorated because of the poor maintenance . The school has from 1st to 7th standard, hence 7 class rooms. However, few class rooms were abandoned, and kids belong to that section were sitting outside under a tree. There were no benches in few classes. In few classes the roof appeared to collapse at any time. He slowly walked inside looking both side of the class rooms then he met his master.
He wished him and had a little conversation. From him, he understood, in most of the Govt Schools the situation was same. Earlier when he studied at least middle class people were used to send their kids to Govt schools, and only very high income group were preferred private schools. But now almost everyone sending their kids to private schools, and very minor section of kids are going to Govt schools. So the class strength got decreased, which also affected the pass percentage in schools. Since majority people were not coming to Govt Schools, so Govt also stopped funding and neglected the basic infrastructure. Whatever they had built in 15 to 20 years back, the same infrastructure they gave been using it till now.
Prajwal returned back to his home. He got a dream in which his school appeared like his elderly mother, and begging him not to abandon her.
He woke up in mid-night and thought what to do. If he donates money to this school then only this school would benefit, but what about other schools which were in the same condition. He alone can’t help all. So he decided to start a non-profit organization, which he named it as “My Childhood school (MCS)” anyone can donate the money to it, and it takes the responsibility to maintain the schools.
He shared this idea with his childhood friends who were in US; they were very excited and came forward to join as members and help their schools.
The organization first reconstructed the Prajwal School, and made it like a new. The news came in all media channels; most of the software engineers enquired about the MCS and started donating money to the organization.
The organization also took the initiative to educate parents and encourage them to join their kids in Govt School. As someone said “A Journey of thousand miles start with a single step”, the MCS activities started with Prajwal school and gradually spread to all Govt schools in all the districts. This had become a revolution, and most of the young engineers were joined in MCS and extended their services.
Govt also impressed with the MCS work and gave a award to Prajwal for taking the initiative.