If a poor child cannot reach school, the school will have to reach him,” Swami Vivekananda had said. Based on this theme, the Friends of Tribal Society (FTS) celebrated its silver Jubilee and the annual day of its Bhubaneswar chapter at the Bhanja Kala Mandap here on Sunday.
The Friends of Tribal Society (FTS) is a voluntary organisation which was started in 1989 and is working among the tribals in India and it believes literacy is the key to progress.
Friends of Tribal Society executive president and industrialist Sajjan Bansal said a total of about 52,000 singer-teacher schools are running in the country. If literacy is spread in every area, it would be easier to solve the Maoist problem.
The FTS is making efforts to ensure tribals their due rights and helping them how to exercise the Right to Information (RTI).Fund raisers from different chapters were felicitated on the occasion.
The programme was followed by a cultural programme, including a Kabi Sammilani conducted by Sailendra Yadav.Kuldip Gupta, Daudayal Agrawal and laxman Mahipal, who were also present as guests, gave a brief history and detailed the objectives of the FTS.
FTS president laxman Mahipal delivered the welcome address and coordinator Mansukh Sethia conducted gave a vote of thanks.This year, the organisation also observed the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.