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Meet India's Unique Corn Village Where Children Speak Fluent English
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News18•12-10-2026, 17:14
Meet India's Unique Corn Village Where Children Speak Fluent English
- •Located in the Jaunpur region of Tehri-Garhwal in Uttarakhand, Sainji village is famously known as the Corn Village of India.
- •Corn cobs are hung outside every house in the village to dry, a traditional practice preserved for months for flour and consumption.
- •Local women run self-help groups selling chemical-free organic grains, vegetables, rajma, red rice, and traditional mountain spices.
- •A free English-medium school has been successfully running in the village for about 16 years, founded by a Canadian woman named Lori.
- •Lori and her husband also run a local cafe and bakery, and the earnings from it are directly used to fund the children's free education.
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Saiyuni village in the Jaunpur area of Uttarakhand's Tehri-Garhwal region is called the Corn Village of India because the highest amount of corn is grown here, and villagers hang maize cobs outside and all over their houses to dry them.
A Canadian woman named Lori, who came to live in the village with her husband about 17 to 18 years ago, started the free English medium school which has been running for around 16 years.
The women's self-help groups in the village sell chemical-free grains, vegetables, pulses, rajma, naurangi dal, red rice, ragi flour, and hill spices prepared by drying and crushing ingredients like timru, mora, coriander, and garlic.
