Guj village achieves distinction of 100 pc literacy

Jamnagar, June 15: A small village of two thousand population -- Navagam of Bhanvad block -- in Gujarat has achieved the distinction of hundred per cent literacy, even as the state has only 66 per cent literacy rate while the national average is 65 per cent.

The villagers, who are proud of the hundred per cent literacy rate, are taking keen interest in education particularly of girls.

The villagers have been contributing for the education for past several years, which had produced 14 doctors out of which eight have gone abroad.

Even three girls from the village are now taking medical education and several persons of the village have joined high government post.

S K Langa, the principal of the village school, said the villagers are aware of education and belive that the school is a 'Saraswati Temple'.

The parents of children have made the school as the model school as several sports persons were also produced by it.

The villagers also takes keen interest in the development work and has built 15 check-dams for the water storages from the contributions. Besides this, it has also set up four cultural halls, two aanganvadis, two water tanks and other facilities under the 'Joytirgram plan'.

UNI