It was a cheerful time for kids clad in rural costumes as they enthusiastically involved in various parish professions, such as ploughing fields, milking cows and buffalos, riding on bullock carts with loads of paddy collect, disseminating paddy and cotton seeds on wet and mudspattered meadow and harvesting crop amidst folk songs.
To create awareness on village life and the farming culture, professions among the kids, the Academic Heights Public Schools (AHPS) launched Hello Farmer, an innovative student education programme. The programme is a part of their Continuing Education and Learning Programmes for Students (CELPS) and was inaugurated by S Siva Kumar, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), ITC Agribusiness.
Speaking on the occasion, Siva Kumar said that the village mela would help students to know village traditions and rural culture. “Serenity and innocence lace the village life and unity. There is need to preserve the village traditions and culture by organising several programmes to create awareness among the students,” he said.
Ram Prasad, director of AHPS said that Hello Farmer aims to create awareness on traditional Indian science of agriculture and incorporate knowledge about villages among the students. The village mela programme helped number of student to understand the village culture and traditions as they directly participated ploughing of field, milking cows, riding on bullock cart with loads of paddy crop, sowing and harvesting paddy, cotton and other crops at one place. “We are planning to organise more programmes on village traditions and culture to create awareness among the students,” Sri Krishna, Correspondent of AHPS said.
He said that the Academic Heights Public School has 25 branches across the country and they are planning to extend the service setting up 100 schools in the India by 2012.
By MOULI MAREEDU
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