For Class X fail students, Kodaikanal homestay offers a free two-night stay

Tribune Web Desk

Chandigarh, July 17

A Malayali entrepreneur Sudheesh K, who lives in the famous Tamil Nadu hill station Kodaikanal, has devised a unique way to encourage and support young students who couldn’t clear Class X exams this year.

Sudheesh is offering free tourism facilities to the kids in the hills. Sharing the offer on social media, he said he wanted to help these students with whatever he could offer in his capacity, reports TNIE.

The students can come and stay with their parents in the properties run by Sudheesh, who owns The Hammock Homestays and other properties in the hills. Students can stay for two days and need to provide their SSLC certificate that shows that they have failed in the secondary school examination.

Sudheesh, a native of Vadakara in Kozhikode who has been living in Kodaikanal since 2006 with his family, reiterated that parents often compare their kids with others doing well in examinations, making it more difficult for the children to cope up with their failures. However, amid the silence of the hills, these children might find solace and a break from their stressful lives and help deal better with these situations.

Following his viral post on Facebook, Sudheesh’s phone has not stopped ringing and he even received a call from a youngster, who wanted to book the homestay for his father, who failed the SSLC exam years ago.

Speaking to The Hindu, Sudheesh said, “He was under the impression that the offer was open to anyone who had ever failed the exam. I had to convince him that doing that would put me out of business.”

On July 14, Kerala State Education Minister V Sivankutty declared the DHSE Kerala SSLC or class 10 result. Over 4.2 lakh students got their results today and as many as 99.47% of students who appeared for the exam cleared it. To the few students who could not clear the exams, the state education minister gave a motivating statement.