READ INDIA & APAL IN BENGAL

CHALO PADHI- READ INDIA IN WEST BENGAL

Read India Campaign was launched on an all-India scale by Pratham Mumbai Education Initiative in January 2007, to complement the programme of Sarva Siksha Abhijan of the Government. The avowed motives of Sarva Siksha Abhijan are to enroll, every 6-14 year CHILD in school, to ensure their attendance and also to uplift their educational status. But unfortunately, such lofty ideals faltered at the altar of reality. A reality-check of the present scenario of Indian primary educational system depicts that, ‘Children are going to school but they are not able to achieve the level specific competency’. Due to this reason many children lose there interest in learning and after a certain period of time most of them become drop-out. Herein, Pratham has stepped in with its Read India Campaign or Chalo Padhi Abhijan as it is known in West Bengal. The motto of the campaign is ‘Every child in school and learning well’.
Chalo Padhi Abhijan targets those children who are either not enrolled in schools or those children who are lagging behind in spite of attending schools. The main objective of the Chalo Padhi Abhijan is to invigorate the primary educational level of each children in terms of basic languages and computing basic maths and to make the children gravitate towards education through some model games which is simple to implement and easily replicable. As a result, children can concentrate more easily and their attendance in school gets ensured.