Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu on Friday felicitated districts of Dantewada and Jashpur from Chhattisgarh with National literacy Awards in New Delhi on the 'International literacy Day'.
The Vice President also felicitated two gram panchayats — Karmaha in Surguja district and Temri in Raipur district with Akshar Bharat Rashtriya Puraskar.
In all, Chhattisgarh State bagged four prestigious National literacy Awards on Friday. It may be mentioned here that eleven National literacy Awards were given away on Friday.
The Vice-President said that Chhattisgarh was a new State which was making rapid strides on all parameters of development.
He said that cent per cent literacy should be achieved at any cost in the entire country by the year 2022. Co-operation of all the sections of the society is needed to meet the target set.
Union Human Resources Development Minister Prakash Javadekar was also present.
Chief Minister Raman Singh congratulated the officers-employees associated with the literacy Mission and Akshar Sainiks, panchs-sarpanchs and people of both the districts-Dantewada and Sukma.
Chief Executive Officer Dr Gourav Singh of National literacy Mission District Panchayat Dantewada and Chief Executive Officer Deepak Soni Jashpur District Panchayat received the awards at the hands of the Vice-President.
Chief Executive Officer Anurag Pande of Gram Panchayat Karmaha (district Surguja) and Chief Executive Officer Tijiya Banjare of Gram Panchayat Temri (district-Raipur) received the awards in New Delhi.
The officer said that 78,000 citizens had been covered under the National literacy Mission out of a total of 80 ,208 residents at insurgency infested Dantewada district.
Dr Gaurav Singh revealed that all the 732 jail inmates had been made literates in Dantewada district jail. The district has joined the cent per cent literate districts of the country. Stress is being laid on Digital literacy also.
Jashpur district Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Deepak Tandon said National literacy Award had been given to the district as Neo-literates had been aligned with Chief Minister's Skill Development Project and Digital literacy had been encouraged.