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Lay stress on girls’ education: Collector

Staff Reporter

‘Ensure budgetary allocation for all schools’

Collector seeks habitation-wise survey
Action plan to be ready by
December 24

Kakinada: District Collector Gopalakrishna Dwivedi suggested to the officials of Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) to lay emphasis on education of girls, physically challenged, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes while drafting the action plan for 2009-10 with the broader objective of improving the quality of education. The budgetary proposals should be such that the infrastructure in all types of schools functioning under the SSA got adequate allocations for betterment.

Addressing a review meeting on SSA here, Mr. Dwivedi sought a detailed habitation-wise survey to be done so that uneducated children were not left out of the literacy drive. Such a survey would also enable SSA officials to have a first-hand account of educational facilities available in the habitations, which could be included in their scheme of things. Due priority has to be given to retaining the children in schools where they were enrolled as part of the SSA drive.

SSA additional coordinator Y Hrishikesh said mandal level action plans would be readied by December 24 and integrated into the district plan on the basis of priorities. A core committee constituted for the purpose was on the job. Assistant Director of Disabled Welfare T Jeevan Babu and others were present.

Festival of sciences

Sashtra, a Festival of Basic Sciences, organised by V.S. Lakshmi Women’s Degree and P.G College witnessed a flurry of activity by about 200 students from different colleges in the district. Various competitions aimed at testing their knowledge of mathematics, physics, electronics, chemistry and computer science were conducted in addition to presenting of papers by students.

The two-day event that concluded on Friday evening comprised a workshop on chemistry wherein students displayed models covering organic, inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry and physical chemistry subjects.

The workshop themes were `Importance of Chromatography in Chemical Analysis’ and `Role of Chemistry in Development of Future Generation Fuels’.

Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited in-charge (laboratories) KVS Murthy participated as chief guest. College principal V Sandhya, secretary V Sitarama Raju, director DJPN Reddy and vice-principal M Padmaja were among those who took part in the annual event.

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