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The Munnar Government Vocational Higher Secondary School is celebrating 100 years of shaping young lives successful the elevation presumption this year. The instauration had its beginnings arsenic a precocious schoolhouse successful an abandoned British beverage mill successful the bosom of Munnar’s beverage plantations. Founded to amended the children of plantation workers, it is the archetypal precocious schoolhouse successful the region.
Historical records states that the British-owned Kanan Devan Producer Company acceptable up the precocious schoolhouse successful 1926. The authorities took implicit the schoolhouse successful 1955 and aboriginal upgraded it to a vocational higher secondary school.
In his book, Munnar, Charithram Vishesham, writer and writer M.J. Babu narrates the pivotal relation of the schoolhouse successful shaping the acquisition strategy successful the Munnar hills. “Thomas John, a Malayali, was the archetypal headteacher the school. Mr. John, connected his mode backmost from Britain aft completing his higher education, met connected the vessel a fewer Britishers who were managing the Kanan Devan beverage plantation successful Munnar. They asked him to instrumentality implicit the schoolhouse and appointed him arsenic its archetypal headteacher. “
Tea factory
Mr. Babu, the school’s alumni relation president, says the schoolhouse was built successful a beverage mill that was damaged successful the 1924 floods. A boys’ hostel was besides opened adjacent the schoolhouse to guarantee boarding installation for students from acold away- estates. The schoolhouse authorities past had utilized the information of an abandoned bid to vigor h2o for the hostel students,” says Mr. Babu.
Alumni
“Many eminent personalities, including Walter Devaram, the erstwhile Director General of Police, Tamil Nadu, are the alumni of the school, ” says Mr. Babu.
Munnar Government Vocational Higher Secondary School headteacher S. Jayalakshmi says present 560 children are studying successful the precocious schoolhouse section. “Devikulam MLA A. Raja inaugurated connected Thursday an year-long solemnisation of the 100th day of the school. Several anniversary-related programmes volition beryllium hosted successful the schoolhouse successful the coming months,” says Dr. Jayalakshmi.
