The Chhattisgarh government has targeted to make 2.5 lakh people aged above 15 years literate through volunteer instructors under the Padhna Likhna Abhiyan, School Education Minister Dr Premsai Singh Tekam announced on Tuesday.
The Minister stated this while addressing subject experts, source persons, e-educators, e-learners and education and literacy field officers and employees at a state level webinar to mark International Literacy Day.
The campaign and programmes will start when the Corna virus infection goes down and it will be focused on a cycle of four months, he said.
Giving priority to aspiring districts in the state, these programmes will begin from rural and urban areas.
For this, a state literacy center in State Council for Educational Research and Training (SCERT) and district literacy center in District Institute for Education and Training (DIET) will be established, Dr Tekam said.
He said that Gadhbo Digital Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Urban Functional Literacy programme has been started by the State Literacy Mission Authority in 50 centers across 27 districts with an aim to make the younger generation digitally literate.
Under the Gadhbo Digital Chhattisgarh programme, about 10,000 learners have become digital literate so far.
Presently, the programmes are not operational due to Covid-19 epidemic.
Dr. Tekam told the webinar that UNESCO declared September 8 as International Literacy Day on November 17, 1965. It was first celebrated in 1966. It aims to shed light on the importance of literacy.
Assistant Director of State Literacy Mission Prashant Pandey and other senior officials attended the event.