Raichur: Chief Executive Officer of Raichur Zilla Panchayat Manjunath Prasad has expressed the need to encourage girls to take up higher education to improve the literacy rate among women in this educationally backward district.

He was inaugurating the Rural Girl Child Education Assistance Programme organised by Godavari Fertilizers and Chemicals ltd. here on Tuesday. He said the district had been placed at the lowest position in the State in respect of literacy rate. Only 35 per cent of the women in the district were literates and the rate was below 10 per cent in Deodurga taluk. This was because of high dropout rate among girls. There was a need to create awareness among rural women to send their children, especially girls, to schools and encourage them to continue higher education, he said. He said the Government had been providing Rs. 5,000 and Rs. 10,000 scholarship to meritorious students in X standard and pre-university respectively, as an encouragement to continue their higher studies. Mr. Manjunath, who lauded the management of the Godavari Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd., for launching education assistance programmes for girls, said such programmes would encourage girls from rural areas to continue their higher education.

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