About 40 per cent of our schoolchildren do not acquire literacy skills with satisfactory proficiency even after completing elementary education. In India, literacy can play an important role in empowering people as well as improving their quality of life — especially of women and those belonging to the disadvantaged groups of society. First, we must improve the quality of pre-primary and school education to ensure that all children graduating from school have the necessary literacy skills. The Saakshar Bharat Programme and the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan are the government’s key policy instruments in the realm of improving literacy. The authority has also tried to align the Saakshar Bharat Programme with the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana.

Source: Indian Express September 07, 2017 18:45 UTC