"All this could be achieved with the active support of students, teachers and village people. Ours is perhaps the first government school in the district to release a magazine of its own. Only a few days ago, some teachers from the Government School in Jawahar Nagar told me how they too wanted to bring out their school's magazine in a similar way," said the school's Punjabi teacher Karamjit Grewal.

For the first two years, the magazine was released with the help of students' donations. Each student donated Rs 20 for the magazine of their own volition. But this year, the villagers collected funds for the magazine.

"As the village people gave us funds, this year we got 450 extra copies published," said Grewal.

The magazine features a variety of write-ups related to social issues. As many as 15 different subjects, from female foeticide to dowry, have been covered in this year's issue.

"In the first year, the children came up to me with plagiarised articles, poems and stories. I told them to write original material, whatever the topic or quality. And they responded magnificently. The second time I requested them to work on material pertaining to certain themes. They worked accordingly and we published some good stuff. This year, it has improved further," said Grewal.

The students have expressed how they feel about their marks in school exams, the time before the school recess, their mother, the village, female foeticide, dowry, etc.

The students' work has only been edited for grammar. Hindi teachers Premlata and Meena and English teacher Jasdeep Kaur did most of the editing.

Interestingly, Karamjit is himself a well-known writer of poems, lyrics, short-stories and plays. He had won the 'Sarvottam Bal Puruskar'

from the Punjabi Sahit Akademi in 2005. He writes mostly about the problems being faced by village children.