Migrant students enrolled under ‘Roshni’ shine in SSLC exams in Ernakulam

Monika Mukesh has small recollection of Bhind, a territory successful Madhya Pradesh wherever she was born, isolated from postcard memories from her visits during vacations.

After her parents migrated a decennary ago, Monika has known Kochi arsenic location and did her schooling here. She speaks Malayalam arsenic fluently arsenic if it is her parent tongue, and besides reads and constitute it with ease. Among the 90 migrant students from 14 schools successful Ernakulam territory enrolled nether Roshni — a task for the acquisition uplift of migrant children — to wide the SSLC exam, she was 1 of 3 to unafraid A+ people successful each subjects.

She ne'er learnt by rote. A pupil of VHSS Irumpanam, she did not fuss with regular revision either. “I utilized to grasp the basal concepts of my lessons. I was attentive successful class, which was my mode of learning alternatively than revisiting everything astatine home,” she said. Her begetter sells pav bhaji, portion her parent is simply a homemaker. Monika hopes to prosecute subject but remains undecided astir the stream.

B.S. Harishka, different afloat A+ achiever from GHSS Muppathadam, was calved successful Kochi to Tamil parents. A Malayali for each applicable purposes, she has nary thought which portion of Tamil Nadu her parents hail from. For her, Social Sciences was the toughest subject, which she studied daily. “Physics and Chemistry were revised doubly a week, languages were learned mostly successful class, and Maths was revised conscionable a period earlier the exam,” said Harishka, who was raised by her accountant parent arsenic a azygous parent.

In the run-up to the exam, K. Hariprasad, calved to parents from Sivakasi successful Tamil Nadu, battled mobile telephone addiction arsenic surface clip competed with his lessons. Realising that helium was successful trouble, helium gave up his phone, a determination that paid disconnected erstwhile helium secured A+ grades successful each subjects astatine GHSS Cheranalloor. Mathematics was his toughest challenge, truthful helium devoted other attraction to it. Working part-time astatine a supermarket successful Perumbavoor during the vacation, helium is wide that his aboriginal lies successful machine science.

Roshni, tally with the enactment of ₹1 crore successful yearly firm societal work backing from Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, suffered setbacks during the past world twelvemonth arsenic the territory medication was preoccupied with 2 successive elections. However, District Collector G. Priyanka convened a gathering connected Friday (May 15, 2026) to reconstruct absorption to the project. “Instructions person been fixed to the Education section and the IT Mission to place migrant students and assistance with Aadhaar enrolment wrong the adjacent fortnight. A reappraisal gathering volition beryllium held successful different period and a half,” said Jayasree Kulakkunnath, world coordinator of Roshni.

The task is being implemented successful 40 schools successful Ernakulam supported by a multi-lingual unpaid each. Impressed by its effectiveness, the authorities expanded it past twelvemonth with Plan funds to 20 much schools successful Ernakulam and 2 each successful the different 13 districts.