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Now that the rally is over, it is time for planning and action. What can we do to make progress and how do we make it? A few ideas were presented for spreading awareness and gaining volunteers, such as:

• White ribbon campaign - on an agreed upon day, citizens (mostly students) wear a white ribbon on their sleeve to raise awareness about our efforts for effective primary education. This will serve three purposes:
• raise awareness
• to identify like-minded people to join our cause
• to create a sense of belonging among the volunteers
  
• Silent Placard Campaign - we stand at some of the busy spots in the city with some of the banners and placards from the rally.
• Table - set up a table at various events in the city (including seminars and workshops), requesting permission from the organizers.
• Letter Writing - it was suggested that we get citizens, especially young people, to write letters to the CM asking him for local oversight and administration of schools.
• Student Activists - another suggestion was to identify some of the students who are already aware of what we are doing and brief them about taking up leadership of their locality by constituting parents committees and visiting the local schools.

 After some deliberations, we decided that the last two - letter writing campaign and student activists should be two ideas that the group would take up.

 With a Pratigna volunteer liking the white ribbon campaign, a small group of us might experiment with that also. Stay tuned for progress reports.