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Kannur aims for total primary education

KANNUR: Total primary education will become a reality in the district if a joint venture of the district panchayat, six municipalities, nine developmental blocks and 81 grama panchayats achieves its aim.

The total primary education programme, being launched on Saturday, World Literacy Day, is expected to help the district, the second to achieve total literacy, set a new model. The total cost will come to Rs. 1.65 crore. The money will be collected from the Plan fund of local bodies.

A district-level workshop of experts and veterans was conducted recently to formulate the programme. The guidelines were also set. The project drafted was circulated among the local bodies.

The District Planning Committee has decided to include it in the 11th Plan projects of the local bodies. “It is after 16 years of the total literacy programme that we are thinking of a new leap in the field of education,” Shaju John, Coordinator of the District Literacy Mission, said.

The idea that had driven the literacy campaign is behind the programme too, he said. A meeting of political leaders and non-governmental and other organisations was called to make the programme a mass campaign.

Mr. John said a sample survey showed that one-lakh people, in the 18-50 age group, would be beneficiaries.

The District Institution for Educational Training is preparing a handbook for the programme. Organising committees and sub-committees are being formed, documentation is being done, survey volunteers and instructors are being trained, study tours are being conducted, and model and supplementary examinations will be held. The State Literacy Mission will conduct the examinations and monitoring.

The model was adopted from Payyannur municipality, declared the first municipality in the country to have completed the programme.

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