As India celebrates Teachers Day on Monday to mark the birth anniversary of India's second President and Bharat Ratna Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, meet a teacher who runs a free 'school' under a bridge to educate students, who have dropped out .
Rajesh Kumar Sharma, 52, who hails from an adjacent state Uttar Pradesh, runs a free school for Class one to eight under a flyover near Yamuna Bank Depot in Delhi. Sharma has been running this school from 2006 and caters to the students from the slum areas located near the Yamuna River.Whil
'The Free School Under The Bridge’ runs in two shifts for both boys and girls. It has seven teachers who volunteer to teach the students aged between four and fourteen in their free time.