No hostel at tribal ‘residential’ high school in Erode’s Kongadai
The Government Tribal Residential High School in Kongadai, Erode, lacks a hostel facility, forcing students to struggle as their parents migrate for work. Local NGOs are advocating for the construction of a hostel to reduce dropout rates and protect children from child labor and early marriage.
Why it matters
It highlights systemic educational inequality and the socio-economic challenges faced by tribal communities in remote regions.
The absence of a hostel at the Government Tribal Residential (GTR) High School in Kongadai, a remote hill hamlet in Bargur panchayat, is affecting the education of tribal children, whose parents migrate to the plains for work.
Established as a primary school by the Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Department in 1993, it was upgraded to a middle school in 1998 and to a high school in 2018.
The school currently has 285 students — 90 in the primary section and 195 in the high school section. Children from over 10 tribal hamlets surrounding Kongadai, including Jiyan Thotti, Paraiyur, Periyur, Sandaipodu and Kettipodu, attend the school.
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