Multania (Bathinda), September 4
In an age when values have changed, a small school in a Bathinda village has set a shining example.
When one begins to wonder whether the word 'honesty' has lost its meaning these days, one should visit the Government Senior Secondary School in the village as the students here live by an age-old adage, “Honesty is the best policy.”
There is a stall in the school, called 'Imandari Di Dukan.' A number of stationery items of regular use besides literature books have been put here for sale. Each item is mentioned on the wall behind the shop with its price.
Nobody keeps a vigil over the stall. If a student wants to purchase anything, he puts the required amount in a collection box placed there. Further, if the price cannot be paid immediately, students write their names on a slip and put these in the box, intending to repay the debt as soon as possible.
The 'Imandari Di Dukan' was set up first in the early 1990s but due to some unknown reasons it was closed after a couple of years. However, with the initiative of a lecturer in Punjabi, Manjeet Singh, it was restarted in 2006. Since then, Manjeet Singh, assisted by his colleague, a lecturer in English, Jaskaran Singh, is managing the shop.
Setting up the shop every morning with five pieces of each article, the teachers concerned check the accounts during the last period. The average sale at the shop is around Rs 500-700 per month.
Sharing their experience with The Tribune, teachers said the idea was to inculcate honesty among the students. The result was satisfactory. They claimed that during the past four years, no major case of dishonesty had come to their notice.
"In the initial stage, we recorded the level of honesty among the students at about 65 per cent, which has now reached about 95 per cent. Moreover, now students have become so sincere that if they find any coin lying unclaimed on the school premises, they put it in the collection box, which recoups the little losses that we incur," said the teachers.
Students said they had adopted the concept in its true sense. "We are thankful to our teachers, who through this ‘Imandari Di Dukan’ made us realise that honesty is the best policy."
In an age when values have changed, a small school in a Bathinda village has set a shining example.
When one begins to wonder whether the word 'honesty' has lost its meaning these days, one should visit the Government Senior Secondary School in the village as the students here live by an age-old adage, “Honesty is the best policy.”
There is a stall in the school, called 'Imandari Di Dukan.' A number of stationery items of regular use besides literature books have been put here for sale. Each item is mentioned on the wall behind the shop with its price.
Nobody keeps a vigil over the stall. If a student wants to purchase anything, he puts the required amount in a collection box placed there. Further, if the price cannot be paid immediately, students write their names on a slip and put these in the box, intending to repay the debt as soon as possible.
The 'Imandari Di Dukan' was set up first in the early 1990s but due to some unknown reasons it was closed after a couple of years. However, with the initiative of a lecturer in Punjabi, Manjeet Singh, it was restarted in 2006. Since then, Manjeet Singh, assisted by his colleague, a lecturer in English, Jaskaran Singh, is managing the shop.
Setting up the shop every morning with five pieces of each article, the teachers concerned check the accounts during the last period. The average sale at the shop is around Rs 500-700 per month.
Sharing their experience with The Tribune, teachers said the idea was to inculcate honesty among the students. The result was satisfactory. They claimed that during the past four years, no major case of dishonesty had come to their notice.
"In the initial stage, we recorded the level of honesty among the students at about 65 per cent, which has now reached about 95 per cent. Moreover, now students have become so sincere that if they find any coin lying unclaimed on the school premises, they put it in the collection box, which recoups the little losses that we incur," said the teachers.
Students said they had adopted the concept in its true sense. "We are thankful to our teachers, who through this ‘Imandari Di Dukan’ made us realise that honesty is the best policy."
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