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SOME MORE FACTS OF LITERACY & ILLETERACY
IN INDIA
TOTAL POPULATION OF LITERARATES : 61%
MALE : 73.4%
FEMALE : 47.8% (2001 Census)
SCHOOL LIFE EXPECTANCY : 10 years.
MALE : Avg. 11 years.
FEMALE : Avg. 9 years (2005 Census)
EDUCATION : 3.2% OF GDP EXPENDITURES (2005 Census)
COMPARISON WITH OTHER COUNTRIES
Lack of infrastructure.
Poor sources of income of parents.
The poverty in INDIA is very high
Lack of funds.
Joint and big families in rural areas or villages.
To earn more money the peoples below poverty
line forces their child for child labor.
THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF ILLITERACY IN INDIA
Government schemes
The Sarva Siksha Abhiyan was launched in 2001 to ensure that all
children in the age group 6-14 years attend school and complete eight
years of schooling by 2010.
Primary Education Programme launched in 1994, has so far opened
more than 160,000 new schools, including almost 84,000 alternative
schools.
The National Literacy Mission launched in 1988 aims 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.
Social reformation efforts
PRODUCT
The promotion of literacy and its benefits to INDIA.
PRICE
Everyone has to take the initiative of teaching at least one
illiterate child near them.
PLACE
More and more education institutes should be opened and
the education should be made free of cost but also of good
quality education to those who cannot afford it.
PROMOTION
The message of promoting Literacy in INDIA should be
very cleared to everyone. The message should be
conveyed properly.
The media used for the promotion should be powerful
and should have a very large circle like television and
newspaper.
POLITICS
Like ITC had taken the initiative many more
organizations should come forward.
There should be proper legislation and law should be
passed to make the education available to everyone at
low cost or at no cost but to those who cannot afford it.
GROUP MEMBERS