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The Government of India has initiated in a big way two flagship programmes
called the Mid-day Meal Scheme and the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. One of the major
reasons for these is to provide access to school-going children and then their
retention because more than 50% of children are out of school across the
country. Goa has a school-going culture thanks to the Portuguese (should I
say?).
Richard Cabral
---- eric pinto <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Prof. Michael Pearson of Sydney, Australia, wrote his "Portuguese in India"
> in 1987. Here is the absolute last paragrph and sentence in the book: I
> imagine he relished the anticlimatic ending !
> ' In a particular coastal area in 1977, 70% of houses had no electric
> light, 40% of the rural population was illiterate, and in 1983 children still
> had to ride 10 kilometers to get to a primary school. This is not some
> backward pat of Goa; this is the Alentejo region of southern Portugal.'
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> >From AM.
> Lisboa is a metropolis, fine ! Take Estremadura or Algarve instead and
> compare the number of Lyceums there with the measly three in the
> glorious Provincia Ultramarina de Portugal also known as Goa AM
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