The Plight of Indian Illiterates

What Statistics reveal

An example to Emulate

Motivation works wonders

Pressing need for renovation

Rally for permanent UNSC seat

Magnet for professionals

Role of Universities and Schools

Endorsing the Quest

The Chain Reaction

32% of India’s 1.183 bn

populace illiterate. It

houses 34% of the world’s

illiterates!

Pestered by

malnourishment, epidemics,

population explosion, and

global warming

Microscopic demarcation

between partial literates and

absolute illiterates

Government’s Lassitude

Where we fare well..

By How Much..

GDP $1,242 Billion

Economy

ranking

12th !

Workforce 467 million

Agriculture

workforce

66%

Where we fail miserably..

By how much..

HDI Rank 119th

Per Capita Income

1089$

Education allotment %

4.11% of the GDP(2001)

Agriculture Contribution to GDP

17.5%

The Ernakulam Literacy Pilot

Project

94.92% of Kerala’s

population literate

HDI rank highest in the

country

Sex ratio of 1058

Highest Life expectancy of

75 years

Lowest Population Growth

rate

Motivation Drives, free/cheap schools, scholarships students

Learning from China; Enlisting university students for the mission

Reduce the metropolis student population ,construct similar education facilities in smaller towns.

Enhance the dissipation of literacy as a resource to the extremely heterogeneous populace

Inefficient in procuring Professionals. Partly educated children take to Labour

Raise upper limit for free and mandatory education to 17

They might be entrusted with teaching their fellow illiterates

Subjects that adhere to rural life need to be inducted in the curriculum.

Strive for a permanent seat at the UN Security Council

Air grievances and voice opinions

Attract foreign investments in the field of education for the poor

Socio- economic disparities infesting Indian society will be eliminated forever.

Better sanitation, agricultural knowledge, and better representation in the polity.

Impecunious children get educated.

Rural educated migrants are enrolled to teach.

They improve their income directly.

Enhances the nation’s productivity, GDP, HDI rank.

Students must chip in and teach at slums regularly. Construct an informative curriculum.

Teachers and Professors also devote time to aspiring students.

Incentives for competitive examination training.

Invaluable step in procuring more professionals than labourers.

Employ Video Conferencing

Provide One Computer per household handful in educating the impoverished in arithmetic, basic English.

Computers can be made accessible at as many cyber cafes as possible.

Will lay the foundation of an ‘Effective Knowledge Economy’.

Entrepreneurs & celebrities can themselves come to the fore and deliver to form a literate Republic

The Entrepreneurs(and film personalities alike) can invest in educating the deprived

Azim Premji

Ratan Tata

Bill Gates

The Bureaucracy, must realize the potential of the underprivileged towards building Rural India as the Economy’s backbone.

The now educated citizens will recognize the essence of education

They themselves can address and raise the problems of their faction.

Bolstered by its success, the people and the Govt. alike will pursue this mission with a greater enthusiasm.

Women Women empowermentempowerment

Female Female infanticide, infanticide, female foeticide female foeticide and dowry and dowry eliminatedeliminated

Child Child Marriage Marriage curbedcurbed

Let us, in unison, vow that we will strive to gift the boon of education to our deprived brethren, and allow no hindrance to take root on the path to a transformed India.