This School In Dakshina Kannada Has a Model Hanging Garden: Wins Best School Award

This School In Dakshina Kannada Has a Model Hanging Garden: Wins Best School Award

October 10: Macchina Government High School at Ballamanja  in Belthangady taluk has won the Best High School Award for its achievement in the last five years. Three teams were constituted to select the best school by the Taluk Teachers Day Management Committee. The teams had considered results in the school, enrollment of students, the performance of the students in sports and also cleanliness for the award. The samithi president is block education officer and the vice president is tahsildar.
At present, 130 children are studying in the school and the children have excelled at the district-level athletics and have also been winning prizes at various competitions.
The school has a 2.4 acres of land, on which it has a model hanging garden. Arecanut, coconut, blueberry, teak wood trees have been planted with the help of donors and School Development and Monitoring Committee members. Along with this, an ‘Akshara’ garden has also been developed.

The required vegetables for mid-day meals are grown in the kitchen garden of the school itself. The school has six subject teachers. There is a need for a full time headmaster, drawing teacher and D grade staff.
MLA Harish Poonja said that the Teachers and SDMC members have been toiling for the betterment of the school. With the grant from MRPL, additional toilets will be constructed shortly. In charge headmaster Rajesh Naik I said, the school has won the best school award in the taluk because of the hard work by all.
HPCL has promised to provide a green board, projector, solar panel, napkin vending machine and a water tank. The work on an auditorium at a cost of Rs 15 lakh has been completed and the work on laying floor tiles had to be taken up. In addition, Rs 3.50 lakh has been earmarked under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme for the construction of 110-metre long compound for the school.