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Happy Teachers Day: No schools, no salary, but these teachers soldier on
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On Teachers’ Day, we offer you a peek into the lives of few men and women in Delhi who have taken up the job of providing education to those who don’t have the means. (Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)
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Thirty-nine-year-old Tanzeem Irshad attends a class at Shikhar Girls School in Batla House, which caters primarily to dropouts. The school charges only Rs 900 as registration fee. (Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)
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Mohammad Nadeem Akhtar has been running Shikhar Girls School at Batla House in Jamia Nagar since 2004. Nadeem has a masters degree in Sociology from Jamia Millia Islamia. He started this school after seeing the abysmal situation of education for women. (Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)
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Near Pragati Maidan, 33-year-old Neetu Singh runs a school for underprivileged kids. (Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)
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Neetu teaches around 30 kids from the neighbouring slums from 3:30pm-5 pm every day. Despite zero financial aid, no source of income and interference from local goons, she remains undeterred. (Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)
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Even at 82, Vimla Kaul beams every time she hears a chorus of “good morning ma’am” at Guldasta, a school for underprivileged children located in Sarita Vihar. (Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)
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Over 270 students from class I-XI study at this unusual school, most of them from the shanties and hutments dotting the banks of the Yamuna. (Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)
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A student in Rajesh Gupta’s class writes on a blackboard. (Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)
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At 9am, 17-year-old Akshay Verma reaches his workplace – a motor mechanic’s garage where he is engaged in unpaid training. At 5pm, however, he reaches Gyan Sandhya School in Pitampura to teach Science and Maths. (Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)
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