By Haryananewswire
CHANDIGARH JUNE 13
The Haryana Education Minister, Mrs. Geeta Bhukkal, has
suggested to institute a ‘Sakshar Gram Puraskar’ to encourage girls for
education and setting up of a separate Directorate of Adult Education to
effectively monitor and supervise the implementation of the adult education
programme.
Mrs. Bhukkal was addressing a conference of Ministers of Adult
Education and Panchayati Raj and District Panchayat Presidents of ‘Saakshar
Bharat State’ in New Delhi today. She said that at least a State level Project
Coordinator with an independent charge and supported by requisite staff and
provision of sufficient movement is must to make the scheme of adult educationa
big success.
She also suggested that ‘Sakshar Gram Puraskar’ be introduced to
encourage the girls and make them self reliant. The implementation of Saakshar
Gram Puruskar on the lines of Nirmal Gram Puruskar could make the schemes a
success.
While referring to the schemes of community development and social uplift
like Total Sanitation Campaign which is known as Nirmal
Bharat Programme, Mrs. Bhukkal stressed the need to lay special emphasis on the
area of community mobilization to make it a demand driven scheme that is the
people themselves start feeling the need to be literate and consider it a
social stigma to remain illiterate.
Mrs. Bhukkal also suggested that in all the schemes of social mobilization and
human development, it was necessary to have adequate provisions of Information,
Education and Communication (IEC) as in case of Total Sanitation
Campaign. She expressed her concern that the provision of Rs. 2500 per village
for all the IEC activities under Saakshar Bharat Mission was inadequate and
could neither help in generatingn the sensitivity among the members of the
community nor could mobilize them to make their village totally
Sakshar (literate). Also, it is essential that the grassroot level Gram
Panchayats own this programme with letter and spirit.
Terming the sealing up of Monitoring and Management costs upto four per cent as
meager and insufficient, she said that the remuneration to be paid to the
coordinators at Block and District level is also meted out of these funds.
Therefore, she suggested that there should be a separate provision for the
salary component of all segments as in case of “Preraks” and Coordinators.
Similarly, the management cost should be limited to the official expenses
and the contingencies, she added.
Mrs. Bhukkal also demanded that atleast the provision of Rs. one lakh should be
made for the Lok Shiksha Kendra (AEC) as against the current provision of Rs.
60,000. Besides, information hub could be created on one time basis and put to
effective use besides serving as a center for imparting literacy to the
beneficiaries. She said that the scheme envisaged that the AEC would work as
information hub for all villagers on the issue related to those living in the
villages. These included agriculture, horticulture, education, industry,
government schemes for social welfare, welfare of Scheduled Castes and Backward
Classes and information on all kinds of subsidies and incentives available for
the Government of India or the State Government.
The Minister said that after successful implementation of Total Sanitation
Campaign in Haryana, our communities were a gile, vigilant and positive and
intends to go ahead in the direction of making the State number one in all
areas including Saksharta(literacy). She said that small incentives and
amendments in financial provisions especially related to IEC, contingencies,
environment building and independent monitoring and supervisory staff
provisions could go a long way in furthering our commitment to Saakhar Bharata
Mission.
Detailing the progress of Haryana, Mrs. Bhukkal said that the survey for
learners identification is complete and over 12.85 lakh proposed learners have
been identified.
She said that the State Government was making all out efforts to implement this
noble scheme with the help and support of the Gram Panchayats. For financial
monitoring at the level of Gram Panchayats, till date, 2400 Gram Panchayats
have opened accounts out of the 2962. Besides, the accounts were being
maintained at the block level and also monitoring is done. She said
that 2962 Adult Education Centres have been established in the
State. These centres are fully equipped with logistics like durries,
blackboards and teaching learning material. She said that we have enrolled
59,164 learners who were being made literates in 3236 classes being run in 62
blocks of ten districts.
The Minister further said that all the 5,444 ‘Preraks’ working in Adult
Education Centers have been given training and orientation for their capacity
building in four days session twice. In addition, over 5000 teacher volunteers
have been training as Master Trainer who would facilitate teaching of primers
to the learners.
She reiterated the State Government’s commitment to the ‘Saakhar Bharat
Mission’ and its implementation in the State with great vigour and zeal.
“We aim to involve the force of our teaching community as well as the
students to put life and soul in this programme with the sole aim of “angootha
tek raha na ek”, she added.
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