NONGSTOIN: In what is surely an inspiring act, a man has singlehandedly helped build a permanent RCC structure for a school in West Khasi Hills.
Despite struggling for a better life, D. Marbaniang or Babu Dles, as he is fondly called, a teacher and secretary of the Church of God LP School used his monthly salary to construct the RCC building of the school.
Hailing from a poor family and having to struggle to finish his studies, his work as a primary and secondary school administrator has been a blessing to hundreds of students and teachers especially those from rural areas of the district.
As of today, Marbaniang holds the post of head teacher and secretary of the managing committee of an awesome number of 17 schools including 11 LP schools, 5 UP schools and one secondary school.
His life is a living inspiration to thousands of struggling teachers all around the district.
Despite years of services as a school teacher and founder of many institutions in West Khasi Hills, especially in rural areas, happiness has finally come his way in the form of the RCC building of the school which he inaugurated last week.
Speaking to The Shillong Times on Thursday, Babu Dles recalled that from 1989 to 1995 the Church of God LP School functioned from a small structure covered by tin sheets which hardly provided cover from rain. In 2006 a huge cyclone hit Nongstoin and with it the school building was razed to the ground. Since then, the school was functioning without a proper shelter. Babu Dles took upon himself the responsibility of constructing an RCC building for the school funding for which came out of his salary and some amount of money provided by the government.
The RCC building now stands testimony to the determination and courage of a man who works ceaselessly to burn the light of knowledge in the remotest corners of the backward West Khasi Hills district.
