Released on: April 23, 2008, 5:33 pm

Press Release Author: Dr.Jawahar Surisetti

Industry: Education

Press Release Summary: 750 participants took psrt in a 30 minute lesson to create
awareness for education for all at Nashik,India

Press Release Body: Ashoka hosts World's Biggest Lesson at Nashik

Across the world , 120 countries are hosting the World's Biggest Lesson of 30
minutes on 23rd April to create awareness about education for all. Ashoka Universal
School hosted the event at their Wadala premises in front of a gathering of 750
registrants who had come to be a part of this event. The event started in the
morning with the introduction that in the world there are 73 million children who do
not go to schools , 750 million adults who are illiterate and more than half of
these are females. This 750 million illiterates is more than entire population of
USA, Russia,Brazil, South Africa, Australia, South Korea and Saudi Arabia put
together.
The proceedings were kicked off with the speech of the director of YCMOU,Dr.Ramesh
Warkhade who spoke in three languages to make a point that such awareness campaigns
as started by Kofi Annan, then Secretary General of the UN, were the backbone of the
social framework of the society. Mr. Satish Parakh, Secretary of Ashoka Education
Foundation welcomed all the participants and dignitaries.
The World's Biggest Lesson was conducted by Dr.Jawahar Surisetti,psychologist and
educationist, who heads the Religion of Youth. He first introduced the world record
event in an interactive session with the children, parents and teachers. He then
went to talk about the Campaign for Education, quality education, awareness of the
extent of illiteracy, reasons for this, the gender bias, importance and consequences
of good education and he also presented trivia on the figures of the present
situation and the future course of action till 2015. He also narrated his
experiences in Jammu and Kashmir in the conflict zones in the project undertaken to
educated the war stricken children with the help of mobile vans.To conclude he asked
questions from the audience to check the awareness.
The participants started pouring in the morning and filled up the forms, signed them
and sat for the event to begin. There were enthusiastic children, parents and
teachers and not to be missed students from Adhaarashram who listened in rapt
attention.
The futuristic vote of thanks was presented by Shri Shrikant Shukla, the
Jt.Secretary of the Foundation and the dignitaries present included Mr.Sanjay
Londhe,Mr.Narendra Shakadwipi, Mr.Prashant Patil,Dr.Walke,Mr.Sunil Chandak,
Prof.Bhagwat,Dr.Nilesh Berad and Prof.B.D.Pagar.


Web Site: http://www.ausindia.org

Contact Details: Dr.Jawahar Surisetti
Director
Ashoka Universal School
Wadala,Nashik,India