Covid-19: A school committee of this tiny Mysuru village is getting 10,000 masks made for students

Shrinivasa M | TNN | May 4, 2020, 19:35 IST

SDMC of the Honnetalu Government Higher Primary School, which is located 70 kilometers from the district headquarters Shivamogga city, has taken up this unique exercise with the help of Shri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project and Care Works Foundation, Bengaluru.

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SHIVAMOGGA: A School Development and Monitoring Committee (SDMC) of a tiny village with just 300 population at Tirthahalli taluk in the district is now working on manufacturing of 10,000 cloth masks in their fight against Covid-19.
The SDMC members who are aware of the fear in the minds of the students who are getting ready for the upcoming SSLC examination decided to distribute 5,000 of these masks with sanitisers among them in all the high schools of the Tirthahalli taluk when the examination starts.
SDMC of the Honnetalu Government Higher Primary School, which is located 70 kilometers from the district headquarters Shivamogga city, has taken up this unique exercise with the help of Shri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project and Care Works Foundation, Bengaluru.

According to Nityananda Kendalabail, SDMC chairman, who is instrumental in launching this exercise, the idea is to help the people protect themselves from the coronavirus. "First we collected the cotton clothes from the villagers who donated generously. Then we identified five tailors in the village who have lost their jobs due to the Covid-19. They are stitching these masks. The Care Works Foundation is directly paying them their wages, which is around Rs10 per mask. We are distributing these masks free of cost after a wash to ensure that they are hygienic," he said.
"Beside our village, we are distributing these masks among all the residents of neighboring grama panchayats," he explained.
"When the SSLC examination will start, we will provide masks with sanitiser to all the students of the Tirthahalli taluk. It will ensure that the students do not face any fear related to the virus," he concluded.