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2,115 elected representatives illiterate: survey

V. Chalapathi Rao

Efforts on to educate all the illiterate elected representatives

VIZIANAGARAM: The Adult Education Department has in a survey identified 2,115 elected representatives and 1.25 lakh self-help groups as illiterate in the district. The survey was ordered by the Director (Adult Education) in October last year with an aim to literate all those illiterates who are implementing the government welfare schemes.

Mandal literacy organisers conducted the survey and found that 1,945 panchayat ward members, 123 sarpanches and 47 Mandal Parishad Territorial Constituency members are illiterate. Of them 512 ward members, 43 sarpanches and 9 MPTCs are tribals. And for this reason though the government is releasing grants every year there is no progress in welfare activities.

According to Deputy Director (Adult Education) B. Suryanarayana, of the illiterate ward members, Komarada mandal tops the list with 169 followed by Salur 91, Makkuva 71, Kurupam 58, Jiyyammavalasa 47, Gummalakshmipuram 46 and Pachipenta 30.

About 10 per cent of the illiterates can write only their names but still they are regarded as the illiterate as they cannot read and write.

Mr. Suryanarayana said that arrangements were being made to educate all the illiterate elected representatives by sending `preraks' and high school children to their homes during Akshara Bharathi phase III programme that would start in April/May. Among SHGs, he said 61,000 women in the age group of 15-35 years and the remaining in the age group of 36-50 years were illiterate. They would be made literate after getting funds from the government, the Deputy Director said.

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