ILLITERACY

 A person who is unable to sign and
unable to read and write in simple
sentences is called an
ILLITERATE

 Economic condition of the people.
 Ineffective implementation of educational
programmes in rural area.
 Lack of entrepreneurship by the educated to share
and spread knowledge.
 Preference to work rather than to study(no internal
economic incentives).
 Emigration of educated individuals(external economic
incentives).
 No family support.
 Many sublings.

 UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization)
 According to them in 2004
i. In North america the level of illiteracy rate was
6.9% or 42 million people.
ii. In EUROPE the level of illiteracy rate was
2.2%or 13 million people.
iii. In ASIA the level of illiteracy rate was 2% or
11.81 million people.

Illiteracy rate in different
region:-

 Over the past few years, the state has seen a marked increase in the literacy level of
the state, particularly in female literacy. In 1991, Rajasthan's literacy rate was 38.55%
(54.99% being male literates, and 20.44% being female literates). In 2001, this
increased to 60.41% (75.70% being male literates and 43.85% being female
literates). This was the highest leap in the percentage of literacy recorded in India
(the rise in female literacy being 23%) and was also a remarkable achievement in the
history of the state.

 Rajasthan is the largest state of the country The education in rajasthan,
particularly of the girls, remained a neglected. Though girls are considered the
squandered gift and precious human beings with enormous potential, still
traditionally, they are the last to have their basic needs met and the first to be
denied to the basic rights. Education of girls was never given its due importance,
but the efforts of the last few decades have fetched an unbelievable result.

 Rajasthan has a big population which is still illiterate. People in the most of the rural areas
are illiterate and don’t even have knowledge on literacy. It is very much know that education
is not much known to people in the villages and government is taking measures to create
awareness on literacy..
 Looking up for good financial support and proper educational aids can lessen the illiteracy in
Indian rural areas. There are problems which are persisting in most of the government
educational institutes causing bad educational programs. These schools have no proper
science laboratories or any equipment used in the laboratories. Biology, physics and
chemistry are just theoretical subjects to be mugged up. due to mismanagement, lack of
financial aids and proper teaching aids india is facing problems in its literacy rates.
 stiill in this 21st century there are children in the rural areas of rajasthan who don’t
even have an institution to educate themselves. With poor administration and poor
foundation there are many villages who have school buildings but no teachers to educate
children. And places where there are teachers available have no children to study in. poor
accountability has created the problem of literacy among many village children in India.
Indian government has put a ban on child labour to encourage child literacy programs but
still a lot is requires..

 Literacy efforts
 The right to education is a fundamental right,[ and UNESCO aims at education for all by
2015.[] India, along with the Arab states and sub-Saharan Africa, has a literacy level
below the threshold level of 75%, but efforts are on to achieve that level. The campaign
to achieve at least the threshold literacy level represents the largest ever civil and
military mobilization in the country.[ International Literacy Day is celebrated each year
on 8 September with the aim to highlight the importance of literacy to individuals,
communities and societies.
 Government schemes
 National Literacy Mission
 The National Literacy Mission, launched in 1988, aimed at attaining a literacy rate of 75
per cent by 2007. It imparts functional literacy to non-literates in the age group of 15–
35 years. The Total Literacy Campaign is the principal strategy of the NLM for
eradication of illiteracy. The Continuing Education Scheme provides a learning
continuum to the efforts of the Total Literacy and Post literacy programmes.[
 Sarva Siksha Abhiyan
 The Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (Hindi for Total Literacy Campaign) was launched in 2001 to
ensure that all children in the 6–14 year age-group attend school and complete eight
years of schooling by 2010. An important component of the scheme is the Education
Guarantee Scheme and Alternative and Innovative Education, meant primarily for
children in areas with no formal school within a one kilometre radius. The centrally
sponsored District Primary Education Programme, launched in 1994, had opened more
than 160,000 new schools by 2005, including almost 84,000 alternative schools.[

 Non-governmental efforts
 The bulk of Indian illiterates live in the country's rural areas, where social and
economic barriers play an important role in keeping the lowest strata of society
illiterate. Government programmes alone, however well intentioned, may not be
able to dismantle barriers built over centuries. Major social reformation efforts are
sometimes required to bring about a change in the rural scenario. Several non-
governmental organizations such as ITC, Rotary Club, Lions Club have worked to
improve the literacy rate in India.

 [Mamidipudi Venkatarangaiya Foundation
 Shantha Sinha won a Magsaysay Award in 2003 in recognition of "her guiding the
people of Andhra Pradesh to end the scourge of child labour and send all of their
children to school." As head of an extension program at the University of
Hyderabad in 1987, she organized a three-month-long camp to prepare children
rescued from bonded labour to attend school. Later, in 1991, she guided her
family’s Mamidipudi Venkatarangaiya Foundation to take up this idea as part of its
overriding mission in Andhra Pradesh. Her original transition camps grew into
full-fledged residential "bridge schools." The foundation's aim is to create a social
climate hostile to child labour, child marriage and other practices that deny
children the right to a normal childhood. Today the MV Foundation’s bridge
schools and programs extend to 4,300 villages.[

Reasons for Low Literacy Rate
 The absence of adequate school infrastructure like improper facilities and
inefficient teaching staff is one of the main factors affecting literacy in India. There
is a shortage of 6lakh classrooms to accommodate all the students in 2006-
2007.[ In addition, there is no proper sanitation in most schools. The study of 188
government-run primary schools in central and northern India revealed that 59%
of the schools had no drinking water facility and 89% no toilets A Public Report
On Basic Education (PROBE) team did surveys and reported that India had very
poor infrastructure in 1999 and a 25% rate of teachers being absent from school
on any particular day in 2005. In 600,000 villages and multiplying urban slum
habitats, ‘free and compulsory education’ is the basic literacy instruction
dispensed by barely qualified ‘para teachers’.] The average Pupil Teacher Ratio for
All India is 1:42, implying teacher shortage Such inadequacies resulted in a non-
standardized school system where literacy rates may differ. Furthermore, the
expenditure allocated to education was never above 4.3% of the GDP from 1951-
2002 despite the target of 6% by the Kothari Commission. This further
complicates the literacy problem in India.

 58 of 100 adult in Canada aged 16 / 65 have the basic
reading skills they need for most every day tasks
 9 million of adult are illiterate if we go on 65 year older they
percentage w'll go to 12 million Canadians
 Police, court and other government dept..

 International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey in Based on
the results of that survey, some broad statements about
who has low literacy skills in Canada
 a) 2.6 million are immigrants
 b) 5.8 million employed and over 800,000 are unemployed
 c) 2.4 million are not actively in the workforce
 d) 3.1 million have less than high school education
 e) 3.3 million finished high school
 f) 2.6 million have post- secondary education
 People who have low literacy are found throughout
Canadian society

 Men are more likely to have low literacy skills than women.
 Many people don’t read regularly, they get their news form
television and radio, they don’t read for enjoyment either and
they get their entertainment from the internet, TV, Movies and
concerts they lose their reading skills.
 Many senior citizens have only elementary school education,
and their reading skills were never up to today’s standard.
Others have stopped reading their skills decline.
 Language problem, English - French
 Low literacy in Canada is a personal, family, community, and
societal problem. And low literacy is a law enforcement
problem

 Pakistan cannot survive unless the problems
of illiteracy and overpopulation are solved.
Illiteracy can be overcome only by making
education compulsory for everyone, and
preferably making it mandatory for all
children to be taught in English, as is the
practice in India

 The article 25-A of constitution of Pakistan
obligates the state to provide free and
compulsory quality education to children of the
age group 5 to 16 year.
 The state shall provide free and compulsory
education to all children of the age of five to
sixteen year in such a manner as may be
determined by law

Age All All STs Khari Ho Mun Orao Sant Bhumi Loh Khar
grou STs (Jhark a da n hal j ra war
ps (Indi hand)
a)
All 978 987 1026 1010 994 992 985 983 970 944
ages

0–6 973 979 977 986 983 966 980 984 982 991

Table to show Literacy Rate

Literac All Orao Khari Mund Bhumi Ho Lohra Santh Khar
y STs n a a j al war
rate (state
)
person 40.7 52.5 51.0 41.5 39.2 38.9 33.4 29.6

female 27.2 40.8 42.2 47.9
34.9 24.0 23.9 25.0 19.5 13.9

Ecno All Santha Orao Mun Ho Khar Lohra Bhum Khari
m-ic STs l n da war ij a
Categ
ory
Cultiv 52.6 48.6 62.1 64.6 49.4 52.5 28.3 35.5 70.5
ators
Agricu 31.0 38.4 21.0 21.2 34.1 39.7 3.5 3 47.3 20.5-
ltural
Labou
r-ers
HHI 3.0 1.4 1.1 1.3 3.0 1.0 14.7 1.7 1.1
Worke
rs
Other 13.5 11.6 15.8 12.8 13.4 6.9 23.5 15.4 7.9
Worke
rs

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