Watching rhymes through cartoons on an LED TV and dancing and reciting the same was a novel experience to the children of the Anganwadi centre at the SC Colony of PC Kandriga village of Yadamarri mandal, near here, on Wednesday.
Officials from the Department of Information and Public Relations from Chittoor, led by Deputy Director P. Timmappa, arrived at the centre along with the LED TV, pen drives loaded with cartoons, rhymes, digital teaching of alphabets and children’s movies. In half an hour, the children were all clapping, jumping and dancing to the accompaniment of rhymes on TV. The official had donated the equipment to the centre from his personal savings.
Anganwadi teacher Dhanalakshmi thanked Mr. Timmappa and said it was for the first time that the children could see an LED TV with a big screen. A special feature for the kids is watching the rhymes digitally on the screen as they learn them. She said that children’s movies would be hereafter played periodically to create interest among the children. “Hearing rhymes and the merriment of the children, those kids who did not come to the centre today also thronged the hall,” Ms. Dhanalakshmi said.
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Mr. Timmappa said that as part of the “Anganwadi Velugulu” project in Chittoor district, more than 2,500 Anganwadi centres were provided with drinking water and electricity facilities. District Collector P.S. Pradyumna had also appealed to entrepreneurs at an industrial meet recently to liberally donate LED TVs to the Anganwadi Centres. By the next three months, all the centres would be equipped with the sets. “It gives me immense happiness to see the children reciting rhymes with all attention. We will spread the message for the necessity to equip Anganwadi centres with LED TVs with more intensity, involving donors,” Mr. Timmappa said.