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Governor Dr KK Paul has launched the Kakrighat Prakalp Adarsh Gram Yojana and Vivekananda Gyanvriksh Chhatravriti at Kakrighat in Almora on Sunday. The programme was organized by Ramakrishna Kuteer and Vivekananda Sewa Samiti .
He distributed school bags and other study material to students of 13 local primary schools and two inter colleges. He announced that Rs.one lakh would be given to the Government school at Nowgaon for creating a library and a spiritual centre.
With the setting up of the library, students will come to know more about great men and thinkers like Swami Vivekananda.
Addressing the gathering , Dr Paul spoke about the life and philosophy of Swami Vivekananda and his attachment to the Himalayas. Almora and other places associated with Swami Vivekananda should be developed as a tourist circuit. This would bring his followers to Uttarakhand and would boost tourism in the state .
Whatever Swami Vivekananda had written about the Himalayan region in his works was a matter of pride for Uttarakhand. Even in his famous lecture delivered at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, the Swami had referred to the various places where he received enlightenment in Kumaon. Swami Vivekananda was a great youth icon and his birth anniversary was celebrated thus as the national youth day.
Swami had encouraged the learning of English and Sanskrit alongwith one’s mother tongue . “He believed that while Sanskrit would link us to our ancient scriptures, English would help us know about the technological development happening in other countries.”
Present on the occasion were state minister Rekha Arya and Coordinator of Vivekananda Sewa Samiti Shanti Kumar Ghosh and other eminent persons.
