The Koppula Eshwar, Minister for Welfare inaugurated Summer Samurai Camps at Secretariat today. Speaking on the occasion, the Minister appreciated social and tribal welfare residential educational institutions in designing and implementing the biggest ever summer camps in the country. It is a matter of pride that close to two lakh children participated in the summer camps in the last five years and were exposed to multitude of skills needed to face the challenges of the modern economy and service industry. He further said, under the KG-PG Mission, all the welfare residential educational institutions would be transformed on the lines of the highly reputed corporate educational institutions in the country. The minister thanked the chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for his transformative step in launching new residential schools and degree colleges for women in a big way, hitherto unheard of in the country.
Dr Praveen Kumar, Secretary, TSWREIS said that, in this summer, 50000 social and tribal welfare students are participating in summer samurai camps in 61 themes including horse riding, classical music, martial arts, drones making, swimming, stock market, organic farming, weightlifting, young leaders, judo, Western dance, film making, sailing, artificial intelligence, public speaking, English communication, photography, athletics, Western music and arts and craft. The secretary exhorted that the summer samurai camps provided a launching pad for poor students to showcase their hidden potential which remained largely untapped earlier, while thanking the chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and minister for Welfare Koppula Eshwar for their support and guidance. The spirit behind the introduction of Summer Samurai camps was to engage poor children in summer vacation productively who otherwise might end up as child laborers and victims of child marriages, the secretary further remarked. Ajay Mishra, Special Chief Secretary, SCDD. Mahesh Dutt Ekka, Principal Secretary, Tribal Welfare and Karunakar, Director, SCDD among others graced the occasion.
