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A play to create awareness on SDMCs

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Centre for Child and Law to stage it across the State

Bangalore: Centre for Child and Law (CCL) of National Law School India University is using an unusual medium to create awareness about the role of village-level School Development Monitoring Committees (SDMC) in ensuring quality education to children.

In collaboration with theatre group MES Ranga Shale and theatre research centre Samastharu, it has produced a play that weaves in the roles and responsibilities of SDMCs in the narrative.

Series of shows

The play, "SDMC Pratapa", has seen a series of shows in Bannikuppe Gram Panchayat in Ramanagaram taluk.

The last show in this panchayat limits will be held on Monday at 7 p.m. at Ganakal village.

The team hopes to take the play, which extensively uses the folk art form of Yakshagana, to other parts of the State through the year.

Novelty

"This is an attempt to replace the monotonous training methods for training core SDMC members and to bring novelty and effectiveness in the dissemination of information as part of empowering process," said Niranjan Aradhya of CCL.

The death of teacher T. Prema in Gadag district recently, allegedly following harassment by an SDMC member, had further underlined the need for reaching information about the responsibilities of SDMCs, he added.

The play, conceptualised by Dr. Aradhya, has been directed by Gopalakrishna Nayari, a senior theatre person trained in National School of Drama.

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