Kohima, Oct.3 (ANI): Nagaland today best exemplifies how peace and normalcy can transform a society. More than eight years of peace has brought about a dramatic change in the state.
The younger generation today has greater faith in the power of the pen rather than the gun, and this is reflected by the more than eight percent rise in the state s literacy rate.
Classrooms full of students eager to learn, was something unimaginable in strife torn Nagaland a few years ago. But now, things are changing.
Today Nagaland stands at the threshold of progress. Making knowledge their tool, the youngsters are moving towards a future, which holds the promise of a better life. The ideology of violence is the thing of past.
Peace has provided the youth a rare opportunity and they have grabbed it with both hands, and this change in attitude and environment is aptly demonstrated by the large number students who have returned to the state for higher studies “to tell you frankly many parents have put their children in school and colleges outside. Now it is very nice to see that many of them are returning. Only recently we had two girls who were in Bangalore coming back here, and this is not a one of its kind of incident.
A way lot of people who have gone out are coming back and joining here, that way people are gaining more confidence and education is improving here,” said G. Paul Babu, the Principal of Delhi Public School. To keep pace with the changing times, knowledge of IT is being promoted in Nagaland like never before.
The state government has recently established an IT Institute in Kohima. In addition schools and colleges have also come up with their own computer labs.
All this has made inculcated a sense of confidence in the naga students about their abilities, and they are better prepared
to face the challenges thrown up by a rapidly changing world.
“Education in Nagaland is marching ahead. It has a very bright prospect here. The children are getting more interested to know, what is happening outside Nagaland and outside India. The level of awareness is increasing. People are getting enlightened.
They want to get exposed to more and more knowledge, and it is good that the urge for this has risen,” said Sumita, a schoolteacher. Nagaland today has more than thirty colleges imparting higher education. Financial Institutions too are doing their bit by providing easy educational loans to students.
The prevailing peace in the region has also encouraged many private institutions to open up schools and colleges in Nagaland.
The end result of all these developments is that in the last decade, Nagaland has registered around eight percent growth in literacy.
“The peace process that is going on, because of this the parents do not hesitate to send the students to school, and if this process continues new school will come up and Nagaland will soon develop,” said a student.
This new found sense of confidence among the youth is reflected not only in educational activity but in the sporting arena as well.
And quite a few are taking up sports as a career. Nowadays tournaments are being held frequently in the state to promote sports in a big.
A recent survey has revealed that about half of the Nagland’s population is literate, which is higher than the national average.
