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THEHINDU M. Gunasekaran The 60-year-old institution caters mostly to children of knitwear workers An annual fee of Rs. 350 was collected from English medium students and Rs. 60 from Tamil medium students towards teachers' salary SEA CHANGE: The students at a prayer meeting on the school premises. - Photo: M. Balaji TIRUPUR: For the Jaivabai Municipal Girls Higher Secondary School, self-help is the best help. The school with 6,934 students, one of the biggest schools run by local bodies in India, has many distinctions. The Parent-Teachers' Association (PTA) of the school has appointed 80 teachers and 10 non-teaching staff and has been paying Rs. 1.5 lakhs towards salary a month from the parents' contribution. Only 65 are Government-appointed teachers. Besides this, the PTA is spending Rs. 10,000 a month towards electricity charges. Change for the better A decade ago, the school was in appalling condition. Now, be it in academics or ambience, there has been a sea change with