Governor Balramji Dass Tandon will distribute State literacy Awards in a ceremony to be held at Raj Bhavan on Monday.
Chief Minister Raman Singh will preside over the ceremony while School Education Minister Kedar Kashyap will be the special guest of the ceremony which will start at 11 am, officials said.
The award will be given to Surguja district and two development blocks including Tilda of Raipur district and Ambagarh Chowki of Rajnandgaon district besides five village panchayats including Teknar (Dantewada), Borgaon(Kondagaon), Mohndi(Mahasamund), Uparwah(Rajnandgaon) and Jhirimiti(Surguja), officials said.
To receive the award, the Collector of concerned district, Chairman of Zila Panchayat, CEO of Zila Panchayat, Sarpanch of concerned village panchayat, besides officers of literacy Mission will be present on the occasion.
Besides this the Preraks (motivators) and instructors for commendable work will also be felicitated on the occasion.
The National literacy Award winner district Rajnandgaon and village panchayats litiya (Rajnandgaon), Devgarh and Banjari gram panchayats of Koriya districts will also be felicitated on the occasion.
Surguja district played an important role in success of 4.35 lakh students in the nationwide education assessment done by National Institute of Open Schooling.