This document discusses literacy rates in India. It provides definitions of literacy and how literacy is measured through national censuses. Some key points include: Kerala has the highest literacy rate at 94%, while literacy campaigns have increased female literacy and school enrollment. Government programs like the National Literacy Mission and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan aim to further increase literacy through total literacy campaigns, post-literacy programs, and continuing education. NGOs like Pratham also work to improve education quality.

1. Literacy Rate in India
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2. What is Literacy?
The ability to read and write & competence or
knowledge in a specified area.
Definition:
The term's meaning has been expanded to include the
ability to use language, numbers, images and other
means to understand and use the dominant symbol
systems of a culture.
The concept of literacy is expanding
in OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development ) countries to include skills to access
knowledge through technology and ability to assess
complex contexts.

3. Education And Its Importance
Education is one of the most powerful instruments for
reducing poverty and inequality and for laying the
basis for sustained economic growth. It is fundamental
for the construction of democratic societies and
knowledge-based, globally competitive economies. For
individuals and for countries, education is the key to
creating, adapting,and spreading knowledge.
Basic education develops capacity to learn and to
interpret information. Higher and technical education
are necessary for the effective generation, dissemination
and application of knowledge and for preparing an
entrepreneurial labor force that can adapt flexibly to a
constant stream of technological advances.

4. How to Measure Literacy
Census: The Census 2011 is the 15th National census
survey conducted by the Census Organization of India.
The 2011 Indian National Census has been conducted in
2 phases - house listing and population. The national
census survey covered all the 28 states of the country
and 7 Union territories including 640 districts, 497 cities,
5767 tehsils & over 6 lakh villages.
1 Kerala 94.00 %
2 Lakshadweep 91.85 %
3 Mizoram 91.33 %
4 Goa 88.70 %
5 Tripura 87.22 %
Top Literate States

5. School Enrolment
The literacy campaigns have also motivated and encouraged
women learners to educate their children, particularly girls
by enrolling them in formal schools. An evaluation study of
the literacy campaign in Birbhum District shows that the
biggest achievement of the adult literacy program in
Birbhum has been its impact on girls education. The
confidence of the girls, as they perform drill or play football,
is the result of the awareness among neo-literate parents that
girls need to be educated and outgoing. The need to provide
equal opportunity to both girls and boys has also had effect
of generating greater demand for the quantity to both girls
and boys has also had effect of generating greater demand
for the quantity and quality of primary schooling.

6. Male - Female Discrimination
Women are always considered inferior to men and the
same is in case of education. In 1901 the literacy rate of
women was far more less then men but it has considerably
improved.

7. National Literacy Mission
The following are the three major campaigns under the
National Literacy Mission:
TOTAL LITERACY CAMPAIGNS (TLC)
This model is the dominant strategy for the eradication of
adult illiteracy in India. TLC campaigns are area-specific,
time-bound, volunteer-based, cost-effective and outcome-
oriented. The campaigns are implemented through
district-level literacy committees which are registered
under the Societies Registration Act as independent and
autonomous bodies to provide a unified umbrella under
which a number of individuals and organisations work
together.
Government Efforts

8. POST LITERACY PROGRAMME (PLP)-.
Post-literacy programmes attempt to give interested
learners an opportunity to harness and develop their
learning potentials after completion of a course in basic
literacy. Post literacy programmes are open to neo-
literates in the age group of 9-35 who have completed the
basic literacy course under the total literacy campaigns,
dropouts from primary schools and pass outs from Non
formal Education (NFE) programmes.

9. After the impingement of literacy and
adult education programmes another
challenge that came before the
National Literacy Mission was to
create a Continuing Education System
and maintain a channelled continuous
and life-long learning process. Thus,
the scheme of Continuing Education
was taken up. The Continuing
Education Scheme is multi-faceted and
is postulated on the principles of
treating basic literacy, post literacy and
later continuing education. Above all
the scheme aims at addressing the
socio-economic situations of the
community to provide infrastructure
for larger development initiatives.
CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMME (CEP)

10. 2. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)
Government of India's flagship programme for
achievement of Universalization of Elementary
Education (UEE) in a time bound manner, as
mandated by 86th amendment to the
Constitution of India making fee and compulsory
Education.
The Sarva Sikha Abhiyan was launched in 2001 to
ensure that all children in the 6-14 year age-
group attend school and complete eight year of
schooling by 2010.
The Centrally sponsored District Primary
Education programme, launched in 1994, had
opened more than 160000 new schools by 2005.

11. NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
Pratham
• Pratham is an innovative learning organization created to
improve the quality of education in India. As one of the largest
non-governmental organizations in the country, Pratham
focuses on high-quality, low-cost, and replicable interventions
to address gaps in the education system. Established in 1995
to provide education to children in the slums of Mumbai,
Pratham has grown both in scope and geographical
coverage.
• Pratham means 'first' in Sanskrit. True to its name, it is the first
major organization to achieve lasting, wide-scale success in
India's educational landscape. This has been made possible
due to various policies and strategies adopted by the
organization.
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12. State Literacy Ranking :
In September 2013, the State Government
of Tripura claimed that the state has
surpassed Kerala as the most literate state in India,
with a literacy rate of 94.65%.
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The graph shows the literacy rate of the 28 states of India and India (as
whole) in 2011 (green) as compared to in 2001 (blue). Union territories
have not been included.

14. Adult Literacy
• Promote a learning society by providing
opportunities to adults for continuing education
through Lok Shiksha Kendras
• Basic Education: Enable adults to continue their
learning beyond basic literacy and acquire
equivalency to a formal educational system
• Vocational & Skill Development: Impart the adults
vocational skills to improve their earning and living
conditions
• Functional Literacy: To make all the adults of all age
groups of panchayat fully literate
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15. CONCLUSION
• Change requires teachers to become part of a professional learning
community that places maximum importance on recognising skills
and responding to inquiries.
• SMART SCHOOLS : The days of carrying huge bags, textbooks should
be done away with by recording school work and school record etc
online. This will attract more and more students towards education.
This will also improve access to information.
• Literacy for girls is a crucial input for developing/preserving human
resource development, which in the ultimate analysis is a national
asset. As far the individual recipient girl, literacy/education equips
her to enjoy the fruits of social justice, social culture and of social,
political and economic rights.
“Adult literacy is the stepping stone to a better future for literacy of
children and has far reaching implications for our society”
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