Adilabad: School going children of Class VIII, IX and X will teach alphabets, words, numbers, reading and writing to their illiterate parents for one hour in the evening after returning from school in the villages in the state.
Students will teach their parents to make them literates under Amma Nannalaku Chaduvulu programme for three months to be implemented from October 2 as literacy rate was low in the state in general and Adilabad district in particular. Amma Nannalaku Chaduvulu programme is continuation of Grama Jyothi. Members of the education committee formed under Grama Jyothi will look after the implementation of Amma Nannalaku Chaduvulu. The state government is launching this new programme on Gandhi Jayanti.
District Chief Planning Officer Sheik Meera said the target illiterates are mostly labourers of MNREGS, field workers, mates and member of Self Help Groups and mothers committees. He added that illiterates in the villages had been identified as part of Integrated Household Survey conducted in the past in the state state literacy rate was pegged at 67 per cent while Adilabad is 61 per cent and there was below 50 per cent literacy rate in 37 mandals out of total 52 in the district.
The state government is focusing to increase literacy rate to ensure that the farmers, labourers and others can manage their bank transactions and muster rolls under NREGS, maintain registers properly in the Mandal Samakyas and village organisation of SHGs.
The state government is 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-to-day 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.
