നൂറു സതമാനം ഇ സാക്ഷരത കല്ലുര്കട്നു

Thanks to Akshaya Mission, 14 more panchayats in Ernakulam district have entered the elite club of ‘full e-literacy.’ With this, the number of e-literate panchayats in the district comes to 19.

The 14 new entrants are Elanji, Kadungalloor, Kalloorkad, Rayamangalam, Manjalloor, Okkal, Eloor, Maradu, Kuzhupilly, Varapuzha, Amballoor, Puthenvelikara, Edathala and Sreemoolanagaram panchayats.

Arakkuzha and Ayavana panchayats have also achieved e-literacy and are awaiting the Collector’s order. “Being a municipal area, about 55 per cent of the households in Paravur already had at least one member with computer knowledge. Therefore, the five Akshaya centres allotted for the region needed to concentrate only on the rest of the households,” Shiny, block coordinator of the Akshaya project in Paravur said.

However, Sushama Vijayan, one of the four entrepreneurs in Aluva municipality, said she, armed with a laptop, took the e-literacy programme to every household irrespective of whether the family already had an e-literate member or not.

She was a bit disappointed that the much touted e-payment service launched at her centre as part of the second phase of the Akshaya Project had not evoked the expected response so far.