We celebrate #TeachersDay on September 5th in India. On this Teachers Day, we can easily recollect some great teachers like Sarvepalli Radha Krishnan and Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam. However, most of us don't even know about these unsung heroes like- Aditya Kumar, who has been riding his bicycle 60 kms every day for 20 years to educate the poor children. Professor Sandeep Desai, begs in Mumbai local trains to get funds to educate the unprivileged. Babar Ali, gives free education to domestic helpers and child labour. Rajesh Kumar, teaches the deprived under a Delhi Metro bridge. We salute all these great #teachers who are less known to the world. Let's spread the word. #teachersday #abdulkalam #teachers

1. Let’s salute to these unsung heroes who
empower the underprivileged with
education on this Teacher’s Day.

2. Image courtesy: Khaleejtimes.com
He has been riding his bicycle since 20 years for 60kms everyday
“Wherever I got students, I would sit and teach — by the roadside, in parks, near slums.
I had a board on the cycle, and students would just read it and stop me. I was one of
them, I understood what it meant to be poor and without support.”
– Aditya Kumar

3. He is also known as Cycle Guruji
He was a science graduate and has devoted his life to teaching the kids in the slum
in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
What makes his story special?
It is that, he cycles everyday for over 60 kms to bring education to the
underprivileged children. His mobile school has been around for two decades now.
Source- Aditya’s facebook profile

4. Rajesh Kumar Sharma teaches nearly 200 children under the metro rail flyover near
the Yamuna Bank station in Delhi. It was started by the man in 2007 with just two
children, the initiative has grown into a school.
He started his own school under a flyover of a metro railway station.
A college dropout who’s teaching children
under metro bridge since 12 years
Photo Courtesy: Simon de Trey-White

5. He calls it ‘Under the Bridge School’ and about 200 students attend it every day. Started
in 2005, the school also hosts some exemplary personalities from different walks of life,
who come in on various occasions as volunteer teachers.
Photo Courtesy: Simon de Trey-White

6. This man goes around begging in Mumbai's famous local trains to fund his English-medium
schools for the underprivileged in rural Maharashtra and Rajasthan.
He begs on Mumbai locals to run his schools for the underprivileged in rural
Rajasthan and Maharashtra.
Courtesy - Professor Sandeep Desai
A Professor who begs in Mumbai Trains

7. “I was told that as per the Railway act, I could not collect funds, but when I responded by
saying that, I am not a beggar. By definition, a beggar begs for himself, but I am begging for
charity, so I will not plead guilty for doing my bit for the sake of education of underprivileged
students who deserve it,” says Desai.
Courtesy - Professor Sandeep Desai
I don’t beg for myself says this Marine Engineer

8. Babar Ali, 21, has been teaching since he was 9. At 15, he became the headmaster of his
makeshift school that now teaches about 800 students today and has 10 full time teachers.
He was called the "youngest headmaster in the
world" by BBC on October 2009, at the age of 16.
Source- TheBetterIndia

9. Most of the girls come here after working, like Chumki, as domestic helps in the village,
and the boys after they have finished their day's work laboring in the fields.
Domestic workers get their education here says Babar Ali
Source- TheBetterIndia

10. This 80-year-old teacher has been teaching children of a village called Madanpur Khadar in
Delhi, since the past 20 years. Because of the lack of teachers in the village, she brought the
students to the nearby area of Sarita Vihar.
Vimla Kaul – Teaches in Parks at the age of 81
Source- TheBetterIndia

11. 5 September – Teacher’s day in India
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Radhakrishnan believed that "teachers should be the best minds
in the country". Since 1962, his birthday has been celebrated in
India as Teacher’s Day on 5 September.
Join hands in saluting all the
teachers who go an extra mile
to make the students better
Happy
TEACHER'S
Day