This Assam School Takes Plastic Bottles As Fees, Nagaland Minister Shares Video. WATCH

The school was established by a couple, Parmita and Mazin, who wanted to tackle the issue of littering and illiteracy in their neighbourhood.

By : ABP News Bureau | Updated at : 13 Oct 2023 05:48 PM (IST)

Assam school takes plastic bottles as fees

Source : @AlongImna/X

Nagaland Tourism and Higher Education Minister Temjen Imna Along, an avid social media user keeps sharing valuable life advices for his followers, talks about conservation and keeps showcasing the natural beauty of northeast India. This time the minister has taken to the microblogging site X, formerly Twitter, to share a video of a school in Assam where students pay their tuition fees not in cash but in the form of plastic bottles.

The school was established by a couple, Parmita and Mazin, who wanted to tackle the issue of littering and illiteracy in their neighbourhood. So, to solve both the problems, the couple started the school in 2016 in a remote village, where students have to bring 25 plastic bottles every week, which is then used to make bricks, roads and toilets.

Learn languages, plastic recycling, carpentry, gardening are some of the activities that the students do, other than studying the traditional subjects. According to the X post, the school has a 0% dropout rate.

"If this doesn't surprise you, what does?," reads the caption of the post shared by Along.

If this doesn't surprise you, what does?#Incredible_NorthEast

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— Temjen Imna Along (@AlongImna) October 12, 2023