Ministers K. Vijayarama Rao and T. Srinivas Yadav launching the `Chaduvula Panduga' in Hyderabad on Monday. Also seen are Hyderabad Mayor T. Krishna Reddy and Collector Rajeshwar Tiwari. - P.V. Sivakumar
The programme, part of the State Government's objective of achieving total literacy by 2005, was launched by the Commercial Taxes Minister, K.Vijayarama Rao, and Tourism, Culture and Archaeology Minister, T.Srinivas Yadav, at the Government High School, Erram Manzil, where five school dropouts and two new students were admitted to the school. `Aksharabhyasam' was done to the newly enrolled students by the Ministers themselves.
They urged the children to attend school regularly until they completed class X and said that childhood was the best phase for education, which should be spent in school and in increasing knowledge and general awareness.
The Tourism Minister, Mr Srinivas Yadav, said that education was important for everyone and the Government had been providing facilities to help poor families send their children to schools. The Government was determined to set up a school in every slum, he said and added that last year over 30,000 children of school-going age were admitted to schools and it was estimated that there were another 30,000 children who were outside schools in the city. Out of 880 schools in the city, new buildings were constructed for 230 schools, another 40 were under progress, while another 60 were under planning stage.
The Government had sanctioned Rs.30 crores for construction of buildings, while the Municipal Corporation had sanctioned Rs.5 crores for provision of infrastructure. Responding to the school headmistress's appeal for funds to maintain the computer lab and pay for the Internet facility to help the students browse various websites, he assured to allot funds from the Sarva Shikshan Abhiyan programme.
Mr.Vijayarama Rao said that childhood should be utilised for learning, improving awareness and knowledge. Education alone, irrespective of one's family background, would help one achieve great things in life. He exhorted the students to draw inspiration from President Abdul Kalam, who, hailing from a humble background, became a great space scientist. Schoolchildren in turn should identify other children in their localities not attending school and motivate them to take admission in Government schools where no fees would be charged.
He told the children to have a dream and realise it by formulating a plan of action. The Minister and the Punjagutta corporator, Rami Reddy, announced Rs.5000 each from their salary for the school education committee every month and suggested that the committee in turn should approach other donors in the area to mobilise funds to offer facilities like computer lab to the students. Organisations like Naandi Foundation had come forward to help maintain 300 Government schools in the city. The committee should approach such donors and NGOs for mobilising funds, he said.
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