Shara, Leh: Tsewang Dorjey is a sub-inspector with the J&K police who set up a nursery school in Shara, a small village in Ladakh where children earlier didn't even start school before the age of 7.
Shara is a tiny hamlet 60 km away from Leh, one of the poorest and most inhospitable places of the region. A yellow bus takes the children to their school - Sewa Shera nursery school. It is a school which resulted from the efforts of Ladakh's most beloved police sub-inspector - Dorjey.
Says Dorjey, "It was in Class 5 when I learnt the ABC and Maths... We decided to open a school for the children so that they can get basic education..."
What began with teaching just about 10 children in an open ground that was donated by villagers, transformed into a basic mud building - a nursery school for more than 50 children from across five villages, where even qualified teachers were moved in from Leh.
Sub-inspector Dorjey's little nursery is on track. His next mission? To make the nursery school a model that can be adapted in the most remote parts of Ladhakh.
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