GUWAHATI, June 9 � While asserting that education can be the most effective instrument in solving the problems in the State, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday stated that the government has given topmost priority to education in bringing all round development to the State.
Inaugurating the State level Awareness Generation Meet on Child Rights and Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 held here at Kalakshetra, Gogoi said that the Assam State Commission for Protection of Child Rights should take some firm steps to see that no child is deprived of education as provided under the Act.
The meet organized by the Assam State Commission for Protection of Child Rights in collaboration with UNICEF and Rajiv Gandhi Study Circle, Assam was attended by many dignitaries, including Akon Bora, Social Welfare Minister, Jeroo Master, head of UNICEF, Assam branch and Dr Shantha Sinha, chairperson of the National Child Rights Protection Commission.
About 450 delegates from across the State participated in the programme.
