The school rebuilding project was completed in a record time of 7 months and handed over to the village in October 2001.

26th October, 2001 will remain in memory for ever. The formal ceremony for the inauguration of Aadariyana School was a very emotional and an overwhelming event. More than 1000 people participated in the ceremony and everyone was very happy and took pride in a project well done, achieved together with co-operation, and harmony.

Each student of the Boys school, the Girls school and the High School (about 1000 in all) and the teachers were given a cap as part of the celebrations. The cap had the word Aadariyana in Gujarati with a symbol of Sun, Tree and Water signifying “Prosperity and Growth”.

The village people were so touched by the work of Eklavya, they collected money on the spot and donated to the relief fund of Eklavya. The teachers of the village school too donated their one day salary to the fund.

All the Principals of the 10 schools have signed and given a statement which says (a rough translation from their Gujarati): "We undersigned Principals of these schools, will support whatever you ask, during day or night, by tan-man-or dhan, in this Bhagirathi task done by you" and the people said, "yeh to hamare liye swarg hai".

2. OLD SCHOOL VS NEW SCHOOL

The old school was in a congested area with a small playground (actually no playground except the courtyard of the school). It was a ground-floor-only, U-shaped building enclosing a courtyard and had a plan typical of village schools.

Inside view of the new constructed school .

Many village schools have barely 1 or 2 rooms-Aadariyana has two sections each from class 1 to 7 a total of 14 sections in the boys school alone. More than 400 students regularly attend the school and the school is a `cluster head school'. A total of 65 teachers of 10 schools in this cluster are covered.