Matabari (Tripura), June 30: The Left Front government has added another feather to its cap by achieving total literacy in the Matabari block in Udaipur subdivision in South Tripura district. A recent survey stated that all 1,22,481 inhabitants of the block, comprising 45 panchayats, are literate.
Addressing newspersons, chairman of the Matabari panchayat samiti Nitailal Biswas said, “We have achieved this through sheer hard work and dedication of our employees and people.” Matabari, nominated as the best block in the state in 2002-03, was the only block in the entire Northeast to have implemented the rural sanitation programme of the Union government with total success.
“Total literacy is the latest feather to our cap, but we are not going to relax over this. Our efforts will continue to make Matabari the best block in the country,” said Biswas, who spearheaded much of the literacy work carried out in the block over the past five years.
Appreciating the role played by the 77 schools in the block, Biswas said they had all worked together to achieve this feat.
“This happened because of the co-operation from the common people and the constant monitoring by the panchayat authorities,” Biswas said, adding that total literacy in a state where the literacy rate was 73.66 per cent was a great success.
Located on the western outskirts of Udaipur, headquarters of South Tripura district, Matabari derived its name from the Mata Tripureshwari temple, one of the Hindu shrines set up by Tripura’s King Dhanya Manikya in the year 1500.
The Bhubaneshwari temple, immortalised by Rabindranath Tagore in his novel Rajarshi and drama Visarjan, also falls under this block.