Tree of letters growing fast, student entries cross 50,000

TNN | May 5, 2020, 04:41 IST

Thiruvananthapuram: Aksharavriksham (Tree of Letters), a programme announced by state general education department with an aim to ignite literary flair of school students during lockdown period, has received over 50,000 entries.
The poems, stories and articles written by students on select topics are first published in School Wiki portal. The selected works among them would be published in book format by SCERT. So far, two volumes have been published and is available in School Wiki. Students in Classes 1 to 12 contribute to the School Wiki developed by Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE).
“KITE has made all necessary arrangements, including helpdesks in all districts, to upload contents till May 5,” said K Anvar Sadath, CEO, KITE. All contents uploaded can be seen at www.schoolwiki.in. Among the works, poems are highest in number (over 22,000), followed by articles (19,000) and stories (9,000).
In addition to these, KITE has also formulated a new programme titled ‘Muthodu Muthu’ to telecast selected videos of creative contents of students, including pictures, in KITE’s VICTERS channel. For this, the pictures and videos limiting to 3 minutes duration have to be send to the mobile number 8921886628 via WhatsApp.