The Signal school, started by the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) and NGO Samarth Bharat Vyaspeeth (SBV) in a revamped container at the Teen Hath Naka in Thane, shipped out its first batch of SSC successes on Friday — Dashrath Pawar, 17, whose parents sell flowers at the signal, and Mohan Kale, 20, whose parents are destitutes, passed the exam with first class scores.

TMC and SBV started the school two years ago for children who beg or hawk at the signal. Mohan and Dashrath studied in the din of the traffic that passes on either side of the school, to score 77 per cent and 65 per cent respectively.