Little Aloysians of St Aloysius Hr Pr School Experience Village Life in Mundgod
Mangaluru: Mundgod is a panchayat town in Uttara Kannada district and lies on the route to Hubli from Sirsi. The town is bounded by Maje-Pur village in the north, Malagankoppa village in the south, Kyasanakeri village in the west, Kundergiand Nesargi village in the east. The Mundgod town is characterized by paddy fields. The number of residential houses remunerated by the town Panchayath is 5223. The main occupation of the people of Mundgod town is agriculture. Rice is the major crop. Tibetan Buddhist Chorten is located in Mundgod.
With the help of the Government of India, the Tibetan administration, in the early 1960 s, proposed to start a number of settlements for the Tibetan refugees. Tibetan settlement in Mundgod is one of them. Government of India in consultation with the state Government of Karnataka agreed to provide 4,000 acres of mostly forestland near Taluk village in North Kanara district. The settlers were provided tents and bamboo huts for temporary shelter in the beginning. All the work in the settlement was done on co-operative basis and settlers were provided free dry ration. Doeguling Tibetan Settlement in Mundgod was established in 1966.
44 students along with 4 teachers of St. Aloysius college Hr.Pry School visited Mungod for an Exchange programme. Our students and the students of Mundgod school arranged a cultural programme and shared their lifestyles and experiences with each other. The Head of the Institution of Mundgod Rev Fr. Francis Menezes gave the list of the detailed programmes for the upliftment and betterment of those poor children and people.
Our students visited the villages and there they had experiences of village life. Later our visit was to the Tibetian Colony which made our students very happy seeing their simple, contested and prayerful lives. Our students shared all the things they brought to distribute to the poor and encouraged them to study better and come up in life.