Mothers, daughters attend literacy class
The school has adopted a policy of free education to the girls if their mothers attend the literacy classes run in the same school.
Chuwangli Sherpa, 59, is learning Nepali alphabet.
Chairperson of ward No 1 of Bhimeshwor Municipality ward No 1 Charikot, Sherpa, says, "Age is not bar to attend the class."
She encourages other women to attend the literacy classes.
The government has established Community Study Centre in Dolakha district under the government’s programme of establishing such centres in 205 places of the country by the end of 10th Five Year Plan. The centres will be established to provide the facility of literacy classes to the illiterate people and raising the literacy rate.
There are other women like Sherpa, who has nine children, in the class and they attend the class in the morning. Their daughters get the facility of free education in the school.
Such centres have been established in 40 places of eight districts of the country so far, according to deputy director of the Non-Formal Education Centre, Dr Kamalesh Kumar Sinha.
The mothers who are attending the classes are divided into groups and they are involved in income generation activities.Posted on: 2004-01-15 03:54
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