Basic education as Priority №1
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1 min readJan 11, 2006
Nothing is more shameful for a country than to keep quarter of its population as illiterates. Occasionally the issue of educating those who do not have the basic reading and writing skills come up for discussion in the corridors of power. This is happening with much sound and fury for the past fifty eight years. Every government had its own paper and plan contribution to the ways in which illiteracy can be removed from India. Alas! No government was able to achieve even halving the illiteracy level. Seriousness of eradicating illiteracy is picking up pace in the last few years. This is mainly because of the several international organizations report about India’s poor status in the social sector.
