The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Government sets 85 per cent literacy rate target this year

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Saturday, Jul 01, 2006

Karnataka

Karnataka - Bangalore

Government sets 85 per cent literacy rate target this year

Staff Reporter

Rs. 400 crore has been set aside for primary education, says Yediyurappa

BANGALORE: The Government has set itself a target of achieving 85 per cent literacy this year through programmes such as `Akshara Dasoha' (midday meal) and presenting bicycles to girls from families living below the poverty line, Deputy Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa said on Friday.

Speaking at a function organised to give away scholarships and merit awards to students from the Katta Educational Foundation, Mr. Yediyurappa said since this was the `Suvarna Karnataka' year, celebrating the golden jubilee of the unification of the State, he had set aside Rs. 440 crore for primary education and Rs. 284 crore for schemes such as the midday meal scheme, which covered over 64 lakh students.

Inaugurating the function, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader M. Venkaiah Naidu, MP, said Major and Medium Industries Minister Katta Subramanya Naidu, who represents Shivajinagar Assembly constituency and has set up the foundation through which he has been dispensing many charities and social welfare programmes, "is a model legislator and social worker who must be emulated by everyone."

The foundation has been giving school kits and scholarships to students for many decades.

Science and Technology Minister Ramachandra Gowda, BJP national general secretary H.N. Ananth Kumar and several others attended the function.

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