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Plan to conduct education awareness campaign in May

TIRUNELVELI: The Popular Front of India (PFI) has proposed to conduct a month-long education awareness campaign during May in eight States with the objective of taking poor children to school and extending possible assistance to the deprived dropouts so that the can continue their studies.

In a statement, the Popular Front of India’s general secretary K. M. Shareef said the campaign, christened ‘Let’s go to school’, would be conducted in Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Manipur, where the PFI functionaries, apart from organising career guidance and counselling programmes, would visit every house to know whether there was any dropout in that family.

The PFI would readmit the dropouts in the schools with the consent of the parents and free uniforms and notebooks would be given to them besides the PFI bearing the students’ tuition fee.

Posters and pamphlets stressing the need for providing higher education to every children would be liberally circulated and rallies conducted so that it would create awareness among the children and their parents, Mr. Shareef said.

In another statement, he welcomed the Supreme Court’s order asking the Special Investigation Team to probe the role of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his colleagues in the post-Godhra genocide in 2002.

“This order from the highest judiciary kindles ray of hope among the living victims of the riots. The BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate L.K. Advani should ask Mr. Modi to step down from office, if the party has any respect for judiciary,” Mr. Shareef said.

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