Strongly advocating the need for enlarging the boundaries of care, compassion and concern for ensuring survival, growth and development of needy children, Punjab and Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki on Sunday called for joining hands to help in imparting education to poor and needy students.
Expressing these views while presiding over the ‘Saksharta 2016,’ a literacy campaign launched by Bharat Vikas Parishad here, Solanki said that our children are assets and the future of our nation and it is our collective responsibility to identify poor and needy students and develop their potential through well orchestrated child care programmes.
The Governor said that today is International Family Day and India is known for its Family culture, family traditions and family spirit. Therefore, it was our collective responsibility to ensure that each children of poor families should also be given education, said he.
Giving Rs five lakh to Bharat Vikas Parishad for the welfare of needy students Solanki honoured all those who were contributing regularly for this noble cause. He said if you want to create healthy society than you have to pay back to society by extending all possible help for this literacy project.
Solanki also distributed kits of required articles to students on the occasion.
Bharat Vikas Parishad will be catering the mid day meal to city based Government schools, said jay Dutta, National Secretary, Bharat Vikas Parishad during their annual event Shaksharta 2016
He said that this new responsibility will feed over 70 thousand students in Chandigarh. The event witnessed the distribution of aid to needy and deserving 600 students selected from various 50 Govt schools of Chandigarh. All these adopted students by the Parishad were provided aid in form of uniforms, shoes, books and stationary worth of more than `12 lakhs.