The Kerala government has decided to distribute kits containing activity books, chart papers, and crayons to smaller children in ensuring the education process would not stop in the corona
The Kerala government has decided to distribute kits containing activity books, chart papers, and crayons to smaller children in ensuring the education process would not stop in the corona, as in the tough time things getting worse with highly infected in the education sector the Minister for Health, Women and Child Development, Veena George addressed on Sunday.In the statement, the minister says, the kits would be distributed to 14,102 children across the state and kicked off the initiative by handing over a kit to a child at Kulasekhara Padi in Pathanamthitta district in the state.
The distribution of the kits should be completed in the coming days she mentioned.AS the Department of Women and Child Development had launched a program -- 'Kilikonchal' by Victer's Channel She acclaimed that the distribution of the kits would be completed in the days to come. Initially, the Department of Women and Child Development had launched a program -- 'Kilikonchal' -- through Victer's Channel which has already been in progress from June 2020 to ensure that the pre-school education of children would not interrupt the COVID pandemic. The second phase of the program started in 2021.In addition, as per the information it was also found out that many children could not watch the program as they did not have internet or TV facility at home or due to other signal problems that’s why, the department came up with the scheme to make such children part of the pre-school education by providing them with the kits, the minister added.
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