are twenty three pupils here for classes but the student population shrinks more and more each year. director of voyeur gullit she looks after schools in the entire region is very worried supports that are the people place that when i started fifteen years ago we had about fourteen hundred pupils now there are only seven hundred fifty six this is not a number of children has fallen significantly not just in our schools but across lavanya all of. she told us lower. people are moving away in droves in the neighboring village of the effects are all too clear just for pupils attend school here today one is ill and had to stay home for the first time ever there are no first graders. at this school year is a turning point for us because it's the first time we've had fewer than five few poles but the authorities won't close the school. or do. on the contrary they're renovating it why go to the effort for