VISAKHAPATNAM: Adult literacy programme “Andhra Pradesh Sakshar Bharat” will be implemented in all the districts of the State barring East and West Godavari and Krishna districts covering seven lakh people, HRD Minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao has said.
Inaugurating the seventh phase of the programme at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Bhavan, he said the programme would be implemented using the services of village coordinators and IKP and NREGS volunteers. All over the State 9,979 adult literacy centres are working.
Mr. Srinivasa Rao congratulated villagers of Rekhavanipalem in Bhimili mandal that achieved 100 per cent literacy. Seventy-year-old Gandhavarau Ravanamma of the village read out the Akshara book.
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Collector Pravin Kumar said a programme was chalked out to make four lakh DWCRA group members and labourers under NREGS in the district literate.
ZP Chairperson Lalam Bhavani, MLAs Vasupalli Ganesh Kumar and Peela Govinda Satyanarayana, Director, Adult Education, Sunil Raj Kumar, Deputy Director M.V. R. V. Kumar and DEO M.V. Krishna Reddy participated.