India certain to achieve the target of 80% literacy with in the next two years says HRD Minister

Updated on: Saturday, July 20, 2013

By 2015, India is all set to achieve 80% literacy rate, revealed, Union HRD Minister, Pallam Raju.

With the present literacy rate standing at 73, India is certain to achieve the target of 80% with in the next two years.

All projections were revealed while inaugurating an international conference on achieving literacy for all. In addition, the HRD Minister also revealed that more than 20 crore people have become literates since the last Census of 2001 out of which more than half of them are females.

The minister said that the HRD Ministry is restructuring the entire adult education system in the country with a paradigm shift to lifelong education to achieve the goal of 80% literacy by 2015.

He announced that an appropriate administrative set up would be initiated to integrate formal, non-formal and informal learning and to formally recognize forms of education other than formal.

Stressing on the fact that the Government is keen to improve the quality of adult learning, the HRD minister added that a core curriculum framework for adult education has been developed and is currently undergoing consultative process.

Lise Grande, UN resident coordinator complimented India for fighting illiteracy and encouraged the fight against illiteracy should continue until it is triumphed.

Globally, more than 70 crore people do not know reading, writing and arithmetic and most of them are in India, China, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

India certain to achieve the target of 80% literacy with in the next two years says HRD Minister

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