UoH project on bilingual training for cognitive functioning
The Hindu
‘It extends experimental approaches to bilingual illiterates from low socio-economic strata for the first time’
The Institute of Eminence (IoE) project of the University of Hyderabad on ‘Long-term literacy training and its impact on cognitive functioning’ was inaugurated at the Government Primary School, Serilingampally. The project sanctioned to Ramesh Kumar Mishra, Center for Neural and Cognitive Sciences (CNCS), School of Medical Sciences, through the IoE scheme aims to administer long-term literacy training in Kannada and Telugu to illiterate participants and investigate its impact on cognitive functioning. This ambitious and challenging project involves an intensive training programme on a large number of participants and a wide array of tasks for measuring cognitive functioning.The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.