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A model tribal school in Maharashtra battles water scarcity to fight migration

December 21, 2025

Published - December 22, 2025 02:07 am IST - Tryambakeshwar/Nashik: Keshav Gavit, the school teacher responsible for making this tribal school a model school by devising innovative teaching techniques, along with a few students at Hiwali Zilla Parishad School, Tryambakeshwar. | Photo Credit: Vinaya Deshpande Pandit Six-year-old Ananya Gavit can write with both her hands, read English textbooks meant for sixth graders and recite articles from the Constitution of India. Like her, 59 children who come to the Zilla Parishad School in Hiwali, a remote tribal hamlet in Maharashtra’s Tryambakeshwar taluka in Nashik district, find second home here.

A model tribal school in Maharashtra battles water scarcity to fight migration

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They are protected from seasonal migration.
The school runs 365 days of the year, 12 hours a day, providing two meals to all the enrolled children.
There are no weekends, no public holidays.
The teachers come every day, so do students, many from as far as 22 km.
In fact, one parent from a tribal district which is over 110 km away from this school, has taken a room on rent in the hamlet to ensure education for his child.

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A model tribal school in Maharashtra battles water scarcity to fight migration

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