Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Haryana women win Shiksha ka Suraj quiz

by Haryananewswire (Balbir)
CHANDIGARH, SEPT 11
 A three-member neo-literate team of females of Haryana has won first position in the national level quiz programme known as “Shiksha ka Suraj” organized by the National Literacy Mission Authority under Union Ministry of Human Resource Development  on the occasion of celebrations of International Literacy Day at Luknow from September 7 to 9, 2012.
          While stating this here today, a spokesman of State Literacy Mission Authority (SLMA) said that first position was bagged by three member neo-literate’s female team of Kavita from Narnaul, Sona and Bubbly from Karnal. He said these neo-literates were put to test in reading, writing Arithmatics and understanding. He said that teams of  neo-literates from all over India participated in the quiz Programme. They got LCD TV sets as awards  by Ms. Krishna Tirath, Minister of Child Development and Women Empowerment, Ms D. Purandeshswari, Union Minister of State for Education and Mr. Jagmohan Singh Raju, IAS, Director General NLMA. He said that the main objective of the quiz programme was to create awareness among the people of India about literacy, its importance and impact.
He said that a contingent of 200 participants including male and female Resource Persons, Master Trainers, Mission Coordinators, ‘Preraks’ and Master Working for the implementation of Saakshar Bharat Mission in Haryana participated in the celebrations of the International Literacy Day at Lucknow.
He said that these participants were conspicuous by their Haryanvi dresses, T-shirts, caps and trousers especially designed for the celebration. He said that the contingent was led by Haryana’s Assistant Project Managers namely G.L. Singla and Raj Kumar Arya.

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