Date:12/12/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/12/12/stories/2008121251190300.htm

Karnataka - Shimoga

‘Education must help students become independent in life’

Special Correspondent

Department of Public Instruction organises seminar on education

LIGHTING THE LAMP: Chairman of the Education and Health Standing Committee of the Zilla Panchayat H.C. Basavarajappa inaugurating a district-level seminar in Shimoga on Thursday.

SHIMOGA: Chairman of the Health and Education Standing Committee of Shimoga Zilla Panchayat H.C. Basavarajappa said here on Thursday that education should become accessible to all instead of being concentrated only in the hands of a few.

He was speaking after inaugurating a seminar on education organised under the aegis of the Department of Public Instruction, the Sarva Shikshana Abhiyan and the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) here on Thursday.

Mr. Basavarajappa said that education would make a person become courageous and confident to lead a healthy life.

There was a need to change the education sector to meet the requirements of the modern times, he said and added that securing merit in studies was not enough but it should help a student live independently.

Principal of District Institute of Education and Training G.P. Chandramma, who presided over the programme, said that the main intention of the seminar was to throw light on research, evaluation and supervision of aspects that were supplementary to qualitative education.

Coordinators of DIET K. Ganapathi and Bheemanna were present.

Vice-Principal N.S. Kumar welcomed the gathering. K.R. Bimba proposed a vote of thanks.

Teachers from all taluks of the district attended the programme.