Chief Minister Raman Singh on Monday said that despite Maoist violence, Bastar carried on the ‘Torch of literacy’ and made Chhattisgarh proud in the entire country.
He was expressing his views after Bastar bagged the National Award in 'Shakshar Bharat Programme'.
The Chief Minister congratulated the citizens of village Panchayat Giroud (Development Block Dharsiva) in Raipur district for bagging the National Award for literacy.
President Pranab Mukherjee will honour three districts on the occasion of International literacy Day on Tuesday in New Delhi.
Bastar (Jagdalpur), district Haveri in Karnataka and district Dharmapuri (Tamil Nadu) have bagged the National literacy Awards.
The Union Human Resources Ministry's National literacy Mission Authority had selected the three districts and gram panchayats for the literacy Award.
The International literacy Day will be observed on Tuesday in all the 27 districts of Chhattisgarh to create awareness among the masses towards literacy. 'literacy Week ' also will be launched on Tuesday simultaneously in the State.
Several programmes will be conducted at the 27 district headquarters, 146 Janpad Panchayat headquarter and 10,967 gram panchayats on the occasion of literacy Day and literacy Week.
Hindi Day will be celebrated on September 14 at district headquarters and lok Shiksha Kendras Shaksharta Samman Samaroh and closing ceremony of literacy Week will be conducted.
The State literacy Mission Authority officials have chalked out a detailed programme of the literacy Week. The dream is to make ‘Har gram shakshar-Bharat Shakshar’.
The Chief Executive Officers of the Zila panchayats have been instructed to make the literacy Week successful and involve the masses. The literacy Flag will be hoisted at 7:00 am Tuesday at all the district headquarters and Janpad (Block) headquarters on the occasion of International literacy Day.
District In-charge Ministers, MPs, MlAs, zilla panchayat chairpersons and other elected representatives will participate in the literacy Day function.
The Chief Executive Officers of Zila panchayats and District Collectors have been ordered to participate in the function.
Sarpanchs and other elected representatives will take part in the gram panchayat functions. The students of all State Government and non-Government institutions will take out 'Prabhat pheris' and torch light processions.
The officials said that on Wednesday (September 9), literacy seminar and discussions will be held in which prominent intellectuals, social workers, literary giants and journalists will take part at Development blocks and gram panchayats' level.
Several programmes also will be conducted at lok Shiksha Kendras on September 10. Quiz, speeches, group discussion, essay writing competitions, drawings, Mahendi and Rangoli competitions will be held for school and college students at Gram panchayats and urban bodies-level.
Conventions of Panchayat Raj representatives will be organized at districts, janpads and gram panchayats level on September 11 (fourth day). The students of Shakshar Bharat Abhiyan will participate in 'Chitra dekho aur likho' -pictorial assignment- on September 12.
A programme on Women's literacy will be held on September 13. Awareness will be created among the masses regarding the spread of literacy among girls. The ‘Shakshar Samwaad’ programmes will be conducted at lok Shiksha Kendras.
The concluding programmes of the literacy Week will be held on September 14 at all the district headquarters and lok Shiksha Kendras. The people's representatives and top officers of the district will take part in the functions.
The Department officers said that literacy Programme is meant for citizens above the age of 15 years to make them literate. The programme was launched in October 2011 in Bastar.
The target is to make 1.73 lakh citizens literate. About one lakh youth have been made literate. lok Shiksha Kendras are being operated at Sargipal , Karpa and Farsaguda (Bhanpuri) in Bastar district. The citizens are made literate with the assistance of computers, lCD and projectors.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Raman Singh on Monday wished the citizens of Chhattisgarh on the eve of International literacy Day on Tuesday.
He called upon the citizens to make it a people's programme and spread awareness regarding literacy.
Singh said ''Har Gram Panchayat Shakshar-Bharat Shakshar'' will inspire literacy Day and literacy Week. Efforts should be made to attain cent per cent literacy.
Apart from International literacy Day, Chhattisgarh literacy Week is also being launched on Tuesday simultaneously. In order to make India literate, Chhattisgarh should attain total literacy.
The Chief Minister called upon the farmers ,workers, students, teachers, panchs - sarpanchs , janpad and zilla panchayats' representatives, Anganwadi employees, Mitanins, urban local bodies' representatives and those associated with literacy India Programme to take part in large numbers.