HERA PUBLIC SCHOOL

About Institution

In the mid 1950s Phadgudia which is located at Km 45(about 3Km from Phulpur) along the Shahganj - Azamgarh Road (SH34) in the western part of Azamgarh, was a small village of about 50 households (30 Muslim and 20 Hindu families). Those of us who went to school in that period would remember well Hafiz Abdus-Samad of Nonari who taught us Quran and basic religious books at the house of Haji Mukhtar Saheb. After few hours with hafiz jee most of the boys and some girls would attend the nearby Islamia Primary (Urdu medium) school in the village. This arrangement of education had existed for many generations in one form or another and under different teachers. Among the most notable teachers were Saghir saheb of Waleed-pur, Yasin saheb of Takia-Ambari, Nizamuddin sahib of Khalispur and Shukrullah sahib of Mahul. I was personally under the tutelage of Ustade-mohtram Janab Nizamuddin sahib who taught with such dedication, love and humility and created such inquisitiveness and thirst for knowing more that even today I feel highly indebted to him for whatever I have achieved in life. He showed me how to balance the spiritual and material needs of life. He taught me mathematics with special vigour and showed me its inner beauty and philosophy such that I sincerely consider maths as nature’s poetry which one can enjoy no less than the best of poetry. Some time in mid seventies (1970s) the village people got together and built a one room- Madrasah in which Hafiz Mukhtar sahib(my maternal uncle or mamu) of our village gave darse-Quran and continued the tradition. This continued till late nineties when I visited the village with my family and spent there about two weeks in 2000.