Koppula Eshwar, Minister for Welfare inaugurated Summer Samurai Camps at Secretariat today. Speaking on the occasion, the Minister appreciated social and tribal welfare. The residential educational institutions should be designed with the biggest summer camps in the country. He also mentioned that it is a matter of pride for two lakh children to participate in the summer camps.
In the last five years children were exposed to multitude of skills needed to face the challenges of the modern economy and service industry. He further said, under the KG-PG Mission, all the welfare residential educational institutions would be transformed.
All institutions will be on the lines of the highly reputed corporate educational institutions in the country. The Minister thanked the Chief Minister KCR for his transformed steps. It’s high time to launch new residential schools and degree colleges for women in a big way, he said. And it will be the first of a kind in the country.
Summer Camps Training Subjects
Dr Praveen Kumar, Secretary, TSWREIS said that, in this summer, 50000 social and tribal welfare students will participate. The summer samurai camps in 61 themes includes horse riding, classical music, martial arts, drones making, swimming, stock market, organic farming, weightlifting, young leaders, judo, Western dance, film making, sailing, artificial intelligence, public speaking, English communication, photography, athletics, Western music and arts and craft.
Summer Camps for Poor Students
The secretary exhorted that the summer samurai camps provides a launching pad for poor students to showcase their hidden potential. This remained largely untapped earlier said Koppula Eshwar. The spirit behind the introduction of Summer Samurai camps was to engage poor children in summer vacation productively who otherwise might end up as child laborers and victims of child marriages, the secretary further remarked.
Ajay Mishra, Special Chief Secretary, SCDD, Mahesh Dutt Ekka, Principal Secretary, Tribal Welfare and Karunakar, Director, SCDD among others graced the occasion.
Khalid M Raza
