Plan India Children Literary Festival
                     Plan India Children Literary Festival
• Plan India is back with the 2nd Edition of its flagship National Children 
Literary Festival (CLF) to be held at Hyderabad during 29-31 January. 
The Festival provides a platform for children to discover the joy of 
reading and reimagine gender in textbooks, stories, and images. It 
engages children to play a central role in ensuring that girls and boys 
are able to learn, lead, decide and thrive.
• CLF’s goal is to promote child-led advocacy with educationists, policy-
makers teachers’ associations, writers, story-tellers, and publishers thus 
promoting quality education, joyful classroom learning and gender 
equality in children’s literature, stories, and textbooks.
• The 1st Edition of the National Children Literary Festival was organised 
in April 2018 in Lucknow which was participated by more than 300 
school children, experts and development professionals from 10 states.
• The 2nd Edition at Hyderabad would see the participation of 
130 girls and boys aged 11 to 15 years from Plan India’s 
programmes in states like Bihar, Delhi, Jharkhand, 
Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Uttar 
Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.
• Before the national event in Hyderabad, more than 100,000 
girls and boys from schools in Plan India supported 
communities would participate in regional activities at the 
school, block and state levels. During the regional activities, 
children would engage in reading, understanding the 
concepts of gender equality and learning to communicate 
through creative writing and art workshops.

Objective of the National Children Literary Festival
• Takeovers can help raise awareness, begin a meaningful 
process with stakeholders and create lasting change. In other 
words, we hope to:
• Build the national collective of children, educationists, policy 
makers, teachers, writers, parents, and School Management 
Committees to promote reading habits in school children.
• Provide a platform for children to interact with policy makers, 
educationists, teachers, writers, story-tellers and publishers for 
influencing and advocacy to publish low-cost, gender-sensitive 
and inclusive children’s books and stories.
• Improve skills of children in using communications and media 
tools and enable them to use such tools for bringing social 
change at the local level.
For more Information:
https://www.planindia.org