The participants of ‘learn to live’ camp organised by Uttarakhand Child welfare council met the Governor of Uttarakhand, Dr KK Paul at Raj Bhawan on Wednesday.
The 67 participating students belonging to 12 districts of Uttarakhand along with 20 teacher escorts held a direct dialogue with the governor on the occasion. Addressing the students, the governor said that such camps hold special significance in the student life. He said that these camps help to enforce a bonding between students of different areas. Paul said that the qualities like understanding and helping each other develop in these camps. He added that the best things about these camps is that there is no discrimination among participants and sense of social harmony, love for the country and national integration gets inculcated into the students. To make the camp more effective the Governor suggested that guest lecturers should be invited by the organizers so that the qualities of character building, human values are induced in the children.
He also emphasised the importance of computer education to the students. Dr Paul said that the students should be given more exposure in the camp.