In today’s
discourse Mushar are the untouchables who are also considered & called as
‘Rat eater’ by the society. They are exterminated from the mainstreamed as
their presence not only tolerated upper Savarna caste but also other same lying
community avoids making any engagement with them.
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| Day of Admission in school |
Ganne Chauraha is one of the most populated
communities of Kol, Dharkar, Mushar and chamar residing in the village in
Shankargarh block of Allahabad District. Despite the society keeps on changing
but the life of Mushar still the same. As today they works as daily wager in the seasons of marriages where they were
called to remove eaten plates (juthe pattals) and other related works, in the
meanwhile seasons of Rabi and Kharif they called by Big farmers to work in
their fields and while returning they brings some cereals (chawal or Gehu) as
wage which they keep and eats with family. They stay at home until the cereals
finished and again they start searching for kind of job.
Various programs and schemes have been initiated by the Govt. but cannot reaches
to the families of Mushar. In the beginning ERS approaches the families to link
with the Govt. Schemes instead of showing some positive response they avoid to
make any dialogue with the ERS. These families becomes our priority
because never been to school
children were really more in numbers, it
could be say wrong that Teachers were never approaches the families but the
families behavior always discourages the School for children enrollment.
This was became big task, as if the families could talk we can starts our
conversation but they could not speak a single word in our presence, one day
ERS changed the strategy and brings sports materials so that children once
attract and starts speaking with us, this we succeeded as we entered in the
basti we the material we found that children were gathered in numbers, in the beginning
we could not speak a single word but to take out sports material and starts
playing with the children, parents of the children were looking at us a small
distance after spending hours.
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Children were
getting ready for School
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we called the families , that day was the first day of our conversation
with the parents, this initiatives
were carried on with few days more as we realized that now the right time come
to starts our conversation about children enrollment a day later again we went and
asked the families and children for enrollment in schools, that was unbelievable
for us that parents and children were ready to take enrollment in school.
For the very first time Mushar families went to school and enrolled their 8
NBS children in PS Garan School. This journey were never stops as they all even
went to Adhar center for making Adhar card which were mandatory for admission.
Presently all children regular goes to schools where they all were received
books, uniforms.
