Daijiworld News Network – Mangalore (SS)

Mangalore, Sep 9: The Public Instruction Department organized International Literacy Day celebrations here on Friday September 8.

B Nagaraj Shetty, district-in-charge minister who inaugurated the programme informed that the government will aim at making Dakshina Kannada district achieve cent per cent literacy rate. With a purpose of making every child educated, the coalition government has initiated many schemes, he added. Support of non-government agencies is also required in this direction, he added.

Yogish Bhat, MLA, informed that under the Saksharatha Andolana scheme, nearly 30 lac people in the state will be made literate this year.  The andolan is part of the Suvarna Karnataka Mahotsava.

Mamatha D S Gatti, president, Zilla Panchayat, opined that the literacy rate among women is much lower than that compared to men in the country, and that there was a need to educate more women. She informed that a proposal has been forwarded to the Central Government, to release funds to provide for pending honorarium to the motivators involved in the literacy movement in the district.

A M Kunjappa, chief executive officer, ZP, Rajgopal, CTE principal, and Gokuldas Shetty, president, TP, were among those present on the occasion.