Vol: 2, Issue: 1 2012

Page: 22-28

Illiteracy & India

Dolly Jaitly

Received Date: 2011-11-19

Accepted Date: 2011-12-18

Published Date: 2012-01-17

Illiteracy in our country is by far the most serious problem. We all recognize that illiteracy is bad and that it prevents the cultural growth of a people. But illiteracy in our country continues to exist on an appalling scale. Even today among ten in India about four are illiterate. Nor is there any organized effort to do away with this deplorable state of backlog. We tinker at the problem instead of tackling it thoroughly. We made experiments. The States have ambitious programmes of setting up primary schools in every village, but these are yet in the cold shade of neglect.

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