Mysuru, March 19 -- Mandya Deputy Commissioner (DC) Dr. Kumara has called upon the students to come out of cell phone addiction and develop a habit of reading books for their own future. He was speaking after inaugurating 'Manasa Youth Empowerment-2025,' a 2-day workshop on 'Employability and Empowerment,' organised by the Special Cell for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes of University of Mysore (UoM) at Senate Bhavan in Manasagangothri campus here yesterday.

Maintaining that scoring high marks in real life is a bigger achievement than scoring maximum marks in exams, Dr. Kumara said that it is important to note that there are no lessons in real life. However, acquiring knowledge on leading life by reading good books will help in sco...