Bharat Lok Shiksha Parishad
CULTURAL SOCIETY www.shss.org.in
FOR TRIBAL
MILE SUR MERA TUMHARA By Ekal Sur Ekal Taal Vanvasi Raksha Parivar
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ultural promotion centres aim to make tribal self-confident and self-independent by improving their intellect through moral and cultural education, knowledge and awareness about cultural heritage, de-addiction and social harmony to eventually integrate them into the national stream. A weekly gathering of villagers is organized in village centre which gathers momentum with chanting of bhajans and is followed by awakening address by Ekal volunteer on cultural and social issues. During the year such weekly gatherings took place in 54,601 villages, attended by 14,35,428 village adults.
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Motivational assemblies are organized at regular intervals by trained volunteers who are drawn from the same tribal communities, trained for long duration at training centres. Total 4,675 assemblies were held in the year with participation of 5,25,240 people. New training centers were started during the year in Jammu, Dibrugarh, Nagpur and Hyderabad. The mobile motivational Rath is the most powerful tool to get associated with large number of people in interior areas where volunteers are not able to reach for various reasons. 30 such Raths were in operation during the year going from village to village on daily basis and covered 1,874 villages, reaching 21,77,971 people.
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