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Improving handwriting in IT age

— Photo: R.V.S. PRASAD

Legibility factor: G.N. Naidu taking a training class on handwriting improvement for students in a private school in Anantapur.

ANANTAPUR: A casual stroll along a busy street in any urban area can make one find different types of training institutes, including the ones on spoken English, information technology courses, medical transcription, tutorials and coaching centres for different academic courses and competitive examinations. However, we seldom come across institutes that train students in handwriting improvement. But, one such institute can be found in the busy railway station area here.

Training in handwriting improvement -- sounds somewhat odd in the age of information technology. The response the institute has been getting here for the last four years has grown in leaps and bounds, indicating the concern of parents about poor handwriting of their wards in the overburdened curriculum right from kindergarten.

“Good handwriting helps you score better in exams” is their catch line, says G.N. Naidu, a native of Guntakal, who runs the institute here. Good handwriting also helps the students save time in exams as it allows them to write faster, claims Mr. Naidu, who has taken it up as a profession for 13 years now.

His family is known for running tuitions in Guntakal for long. However, it has been a long and tedious journey for Mr. Naidu to popularise training in handwriting and make the parents take notice of it.

He began imparting the training in Guntakal immediately after his graduation. From a small beginning, he rose up to teaching more than 1,500 students every year in Anantapur itself.

Asked how the idea of the unique concept of teaching handwriting struck him, Mr. Naidu says he was fond of good handwriting from his childhood days. “I used to prepare entire notes afresh with a better script, if any other student in my class wrote better than me,” says the handwriting expert recollecting the past. The basic benefit from good handwriting is writing neat and fast, he explains.

He teaches both cursive and non-cursive handwriting as there is equal demand for both versions. Of the two, one can write cursive script faster than non-cursive.

The entire training has scientific approach with the initial classes devoted to writing circles, curves and different strokes to make the movement of wrist better.

Recognising the importance of good handwriting, several schools here have started conducting special classes run by Mr. Naidu everyday. Aptly named ‘Good Handwriting Institute,’ it claims to improve the handwriting in 30 days. Students from 4th to 9th standards are trained in 30 days and those of lower classes in 60 days. Mr. Naidu can be contacted on 9393880990. The institute is also offering free training to those who left the course mid-way.

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