CM interacts with school droup-outs

By Our Staff Reporter

POTHIREDDYPET (Karimnagar dt.), JUNE 3. The Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, has adorned the role of a teacher and enquired about the education of children and self-help group women in this remote village, 50 km from here, in Huzurabad mandal.

As part of the Mahila-Sishu Janmabhoomi programme, the Chief Minister organised a gram sabha in the village on Sunday. Interacting with the villagers, he motivated them to send their children to school and also called upon them to adopt the small family norm.

On arrival, he went round the exhibition stalls set up by various departments such as agriculture, irrigation, women and children welfare, DRDA, medical camp, RTC CAT card centre and interacted with the officials. Later, at the gram sabha, Mr. Naidu first invited the Village Education Committee chairman, Mr. Saraiah, to highlight his achievements.

When Mr. Saraiah said of the total 289 students in the age group of 5 to 14 years, 13 were not visiting the school, Mr. Naidu directed him to call all the school drop-outs and their parents. He then asked the children and their parents why they were not going to school. The children also interacted with the Chief Minister and said they were not attending school due to poverty.

When a boy, Sadaiah, told the Chief Minister that his parents died long ago and he was staying with his relatives and looking after cattle, the Chief Minister directed the Collector, Mrs. Sumita Dawra, to send the boy to the Bridge School and later put him in the residential school.

Mr. Saraiah said a student from the school had secured highest marks of 556 in the seventh class examination. Mr. Naidu called the boy, Anil Kumar, and interacted with him on the dais. He asked the boy what he would like to become after studying. The boy replied: `I want to become a teacher'. When the CM told him that he could earn more money if becomes a doctor or an engineer, the boy shot back saying: `I am not interested in making money. I only want to become teacher and transform the future citizens of rural India'.

Delighted over his reply, Mr. Naidu felicitated by garlanding him in front of the villagers and appreciated the parents (who are labourers by profession) for educating their child. He also instructed the officials to send the boy to a residential school.

Later, the Chief Minister enquired about the literacy of women in the village with the MDO. When the MDO said about 250 self-help group women were undergoing literacy drive under the Akshara Sankranthi programme, Mr. Naidu pointed out that there were about 1,192 illiterate women in the village and instructed the authorities to intensify their drive. He later interacted with a SHG women and handed over a book to read. He also directed her to write a letter to him after she was totally educated.

He later enquired about the family planning movement in the village. He expressed happiness when the authorities stated that there were only 13 eligible couples in the village to undergo sterilisation. He called upon people to adopt small family norm as the Government was taking special medical assistance to the children as well as introduced Girl Child protection scheme. He also sanctioned a house under the IAY scheme to a couple who had undergone sterilisation with one girl child.

The Minister for Tourism, Mr. E. Peddi Reddy, the Peddapalli MP, Mrs. C. Suguna Kumari, the party legislators, Mr. M. Damodar Reddy, Mr. S. Devaiah, Mr. K. Devender Rao, the Collector, Mrs. Sumita Dawra and others were present.

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