Teachers spread literacy among rural women

Trichy: A voluntary drive has been launched by school teachers in the district to increase rural literacy rate as part of the 100% literacy movement programme. The campaign organised at Nagamangalam village saw 28 women, mostly senior citizens learning to record their signature for the first time.

As many as 28 teachers from various schools including Crea matriculation school and MGR Nagar school taught the 28 women in Nagamangalam, the Tamil and English alphabets and also to write their names as a handwritten signature. So far, the women were recording their thumb impressions in documents.