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Andhra Pradesh

7,000 public representatives illiterate!

Staff Reporter

They include sarpanches, corporators etc.; Adult Education wing to conduct literacy camps

Training camp would be launched as a pilot project in Medak soon
70,000 women enrolled in Akshara Deepam learn alphabets

R.C.Puram (Medak): Director of Adult Education P.Janarathan Reddy on Wednesday announced that the department would start a literacy camp for every 50 illiterate peoples representatives chosen from three mandals in each district beginning from Medak.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Akshara Mela organised under the ongoing ‘Operation Parivartan’ programme, the director said that 7,000 sarpanches, ward members, mandal presidents and other public representatives in the State are illiterate. He said that training would be camp based and the pilot project would begin shortly in Medak.

Commenting on the social transformation programme taken up by the district from November last year, he said that 70,000 women out of the 1,24,000 enrolled in the Akshara Deepam literacy programme learned alphabets and the Medak experience has shown that more number of the children in these households have been enrolled in schools.

Exhibition held

Earlier, Collector B. Venkatesam who visited the stalls in the exhibition announced that Akshara Melas would be organised in every mandal of the district.

The mela held here is the culmination of 100 days of training to the illiterate women belonging to self help groups from the district.

The Akshara Deepam groups utilise the Melas not only to test the knowledge of the women on alphabets and numbers but also to disseminate information on hygiene, child care, and nutrition. Each member was given a mark sheet on which marks were given basing on the answers they gave after visiting each stall in the exhibition.

Innovative school teachers and self help groups devised different puzzles to check the knowledge gained by the women during the three months.

The exhibition also displayed the hundreds of cards posted by the women as a sign of completion of the education module designed by the Zilla Mahila Samakhya.

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