School going children of class VIII, IX and X will
teach alphabets, words, numbers and reading and writing to their illiterate
parents for one hour in the evening after returning from school in the villages
in Telangana. It is found that there are 8,44,556 adult illiterates in the Adilabad district.
Students will teach to their parents to make them
literates under ‘Amma Nannalaku Chaduvulu’ programme for three months to be
implemented from October2 as literacy rate was low in the state in general and
Adilabad district in particular. ‘Amma Nannalaku Chaduvulu’ programme is
continuation of Grama Jyoti.
Members of the education committee formed under Grama Jyoti will look after the implementation of Amma Nannalaku Chaduvulu. The state government is launching this new programme on the Gandhi Jayanti.
District Chief planning officer Sheik Meera said ‘the
target illiterates are mostly laborers of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS), field workers, mates and member of Self
Help Groups and mothers committees and added that illiterates in the villages
had been identified as part of Integrated Household Survey conducted in the
past in the state’.
Telangana state literacy rate was pegged at 67
percent while Adilabad is 61 percent and there was below 50 percent literacy
rate in 37 mandals out of total 52 in the district.
State government is focusing in increasing literacy
rate to ensure that the farmers, laborers and others can manage their bank
transactions and muster rolls under NREGS, maintain registers properly in the
Mandal Samakyas and Village organization of SHGs.
It is said state government of the opinion that
illiteracy has become one of the hurdles in achieving the development and
transparency and good governance and literacy among the rural masses will go long
way in day today activities of individuals and their growth. Adult education
department will also get involved in the students teaching to their illiterate
parents and will supply study material to the latter.
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