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Good response to literacy programme

VIJAYAWADA: A large number of children were initiated into learning at the ‘Samoohika Aksharabhyasaalu’, a mass initiation programme, held in the city and outside on Thursday as part of the ongoing ‘Badi Baata’ programme to enrol children into schools.

Children turned up enthusiastically wielding slates and slate pencils, and the officials of Rajiv Vidya Mission ensured the presence of a priest, a pastor and an Islamic scholar to initiated the children into learning as per each one’s belief system.

At a programme held on the premises of Montessori Mahila Kalasala, MLA Malladi Vishnu and Mayor M.V. Ratna Bindu participated and initiated a few children into learning.

Animal Husbandry Minister K. Parthasarothy, participating in the programme held at Zilla Parishad High School at Punadipadu on the city outskirts, advised officials to conduct literacy programmes and awareness drive in residential areas of scheduled castes, tribes and weaker sections, so that they could understand the importance of sending their children to school.

Mr. Parthasarothy said that the message should be sent to the poor that they could avail themselves of the welfare schemes being launched by the government only when they were able to read and write. “Illiteracy is one of the reasons for the low-penetration of welfare schemes in many rural areas,” he observed.

Mr. Parthasarothy asked the teachers working in government schools to go for a self-check and question themselves why parents of middle classes preferred to send their children to private schools, even if the government schools were available in their vicinity.

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