HIMACHAL GYAN

By making literacy an inclusive campaign for marginalized groups, the people’s science group thorough HGVS has been involved with the states literacy campaign for the last 20 years, he said. “However, our request to get the Rs 55.84 crore project sanctioned under the national continuing education program has fallen on deaf years of the government,” said Tanwar. This is a central government funded program in which the state would just have to contribute Rs 8.4 crores, but even though the government is spending Rs 1400 crores on formal education systems, it has so far failed to clear this non formal education project that would help to substantially reduce illiteracy levels, he said.

Other campaigns taken up by HGVS include saving the farmers and crops from monkey and wild boar menace and creating awareness about enforcement of pre-natal diagnostic techniques Act (PNDT) to check female infanticide, he said.