Korba to be declared fully literate soon

Korba will be the first district in Chhattisgarh which has achieved the target of Saakshar Bharat Mission, as people of 55 villages of 5 development blocks in the district have been made literate under the mission. The literacy Department has mow decided to send the report to the State Government and the State literacy Mission through the collector to announce these villages fully literate. Since 2008, the State Government has been running various programmes under the Saakshar Bharat Mission for making illiterate people literate. After much efforts, the Government has succeeded in achieving the target of the mission by educating people of 55 gram panchayats in the district.

The District literacy Department has claimed that it has achieved the target as all the 55 villages including Jwali, Salora, Podi, Arda, Raliya, Navapara, Ranjana, Japeli, Khodari Pasaan, Amaldeeh, Arsen and Chhuiya are free from illiteracy. District project officer of the national-level mission Seema Bharadwaj said that according to the report of the survey conducted in the year 2008, there was 1,91,389 illiterates in the district. But after providing better guidance, the department has succeeded in making 81 per cent of the people literate. These people can now read and write. Bharadwaj claimed that after the upcoming exam, the rest 15 per cent would also become literate.

"Only few illiterate are left in the area and we are trying our best to educate them also, as soon as possible. Hopefully, in the coming year we will achieve our target of making all the villages literate under Saakshar Bharat Mission," Bharadwaj said.