‘Temple-based literacy programme spreading light of education’

The Temple-based child and mass literacy programme has been spreading the light of moral and general education among children and illiterate senior citizens of the society, according to a press release issued by the Hindu Religious Welfare Trust.

A total of 180,000 children from 6,000 temples and 6,250 illiterate senior citizens are being given pre-primary and literacy education under the fifth phase of the campaign, the release said.

At the same time, the project also provides the scope of Geeta learning to 5,000 students of 200 temples each year.

In the fiscal year of 2017-2018, 200 more Geeta learning centers were also set up across the country under the project.

The project was taken to make the future generation ideal human beings and prevent them from superstition, communalism and terrorism, the release added.

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