Sangareddy: Insufficient funds, released in instalments has hurt the adult education programme in Medak district which has over 2.5 lakh illiterates in the age group of 5-35. The district has over 451 continuing education centres, 72 additional CECs and 64 nodal centres to motivate and educate illiterates in the productive age group.
The Union Ministry of Human Resources Development said that funds for the programme will be granted in regular intervals in the beginning of the programme but failed to release Rs. 1.05 crore meant for the years 2001 to 2004. Then again a request for Rs 1.55 crore for the following three years is still pending with the ministry even though only apart of it Rs. 50 lakh was sanctioned.
Essential funds
The funds are essential to run the department and also to pay the Preraks who run the centres through out the district. The CECs operate with the help of Preraks who receive an honorarium of Rs. 700 per month, while the assistant prerak gets Rs. 500 and the Preraks at the nodal centers receive slightly higher payment of Rs. 1200 per month.
Delay in audit
Explaining the fund crunch to The Hindu the deputy director of Adult education B.V. Balarami Reddy here on Friday said that the delay was due to delay in internal audit, but confirmed that he was only able to pay the preraks for thr
ee months every year. As a result the district which has been planning to achieve 100 percent literacy in several villages could do so in four villages that too slightly below the set target.
Velimela Tanda and few wards of Bandlaguda in RC puram mandal, Mantrikunta of Jinnaram and Rajnelli of Kohir mandals have achieved more than 70 percent of literacy rates.
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