Thiruvanantharapuram. Till now we have heard that there is no age limit for reading, it can be started at any time, one should just have the desire. We may have seen many examples of this also. 105 year old Bhagirathi Amma, living in Kollam, Kerala, State Literacy Mission Under this, he took part in the examination equivalent to class 4th. Bhagirathi has set an example by fulfilling her childhood wish of studying at the age of 105.
She always wanted to study, but due to the death of her mother, she had to give up this dream, because after that the responsibility of taking care of her siblings fell on her. By the time she recovered from all these things, her husband died at the age of 30 and the responsibility of six children fell on her.
How Bhagirathi became an example for the world
The struggle of life may have kept her away from studies, but she was harboring her dream and when she got the opportunity, she decided to fulfill it. When she was giving the examination equivalent to class 4 in her home in Kollam, she was not just giving the exam but was setting an example for the people of the world who wanted to study.
Bhagarathi is the oldest person associated with the mission.
Literacy Mission Director PS Srikala said that Bhageerathi Amma has become the oldest person to ‘achieve equivalent education’ in the history of Kerala Literacy Mission. Mission expert Vasanth Kumar told that Bhagirathi Amma has difficulty in writing, hence she has written the solutions of three question papers of Environment, Mathematics and Malayalam in 3 days and her younger daughter has helped in this.
Amma has a very sharp memory
Kumar told that even at this age his memory is sharp and he neither faces any problem in seeing nor in hearing. She still sings very well. He told that Amma is very happy to participate in the examination. When Amma was nine years old, she was studying in the third class and after that she left studies. According to 2011 data, 18.5 lakh people are illiterate in the state.
105 year old mother is deprived of pension
Amma, who studies so hard and diligently, does not have an Aadhar card, hence she neither gets widow pension nor old age pension. He hopes that the authorities will take steps to get him pension. Last year, 96-year-old Karthiyani Amma had secured the highest marks in the literacy test conducted in the state. He got 98 marks out of 100 marks. The aim of this literacy mission of the state is to make the state completely literate in the next four years. (with language input)
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Tags: Kerala, Modern Education, Kerala
FIRST PUBLISHED: November 20, 2019, 14:49 IST
