Sri Vani Vidyalaya Nursery & Primary School

Living and working in Samta Colony is quite nice because it's a settled area. Our school, Sri Vani Vidyalaya, sits right on Plot No 310. Since we handle nursery and primary kids, the mornings are always a bit of a scramble. You’ve got the little ones who are crying because they don't want to leave home yet and the older primary kids who are just running around the yard. It gets noisy fast. Raipur can be a bit dusty, so we are always sweeping the floors. We have small chairs for the nursery kids and slightly bigger ones for the primary students. Most of the staff lives nearby in this part of Chhattisgarh, so we all know the local shops and the neighbors. We don’t have a big fancy playground, but the kids find ways to play in the space we have. I spend most of my time answering the phone or talking to parents at the gate about uniform stuff or fees. It’s just a regular local school. We don't use any high-tech gadgets for everything; we still use a lot of paper and notebooks. Sometimes the water cooler needs fixing or we have to repaint a wall because kids drew on it. It’s just how it goes here. We've been at this spot for a long time, so everyone in the colony knows where we are and we just keep the place running day to day.