Illiteracy is the worst problem of a country. The illiterate people are the heaviest burden of the nations. No population with its major bulk of illiterate people can substantially help a country in its march ahead — however big the population may be. Illiteracy makes the people superstitious and back-dated in thoughts and beliefs. Illiterate persons cannot ably participate in the glorious task of nation-building. They alway tend to cause the socio-economic retardation of a country. It is, therefore, one of the most formidable problems a country can suffer from.
Illiteracy always stem from stark poverty, negligence of the rulers and also from lack of consciousness, both of the government and of the people. The government may at times will fully design to keep the major portion of the population in the darkness of illiteracy so that labour can be obtained at a cheap rate, and also for the reason that the people will not dare rise in anti-government movements. Sometimes, the policy of the government is such that the rules only safeguard the interests of the privileged classes throwing the backward classes to the wolves, illiteracy is a sure outcome of such governmental indifference and partiality.
Spread of free education and foundation of schools in the countryside is one of the sure solutions to this problem. Of all the Indian states, our state government has been regularly allotting the biggest chunk of the annual budget for the propagation of education, especially, at the primary stage. They are already being conducted on the governmental level. Furthermore, a school for a village is the avowed policy of our government. The teacher, have been granted handsome salary so that they can fully dedicate themselves to the cause of propagating mass-education. The public charitable and the social welfare organizations have come forward with the free adult education schemes. The students also have come forward with their fullest cooperation in this realm of spreading literacy amongst the poor villagers and slum-dwellers.
Illiteracy always stem from stark poverty, negligence of the rulers and also from lack of consciousness, both of the government and of the people. The government may at times will fully design to keep the major portion of the population in the darkness of illiteracy so that labour can be obtained at a cheap rate, and also for the reason that the people will not dare rise in anti-government movements. Sometimes, the policy of the government is such that the rules only safeguard the interests of the privileged classes throwing the backward classes to the wolves, illiteracy is a sure outcome of such governmental indifference and partiality.
Spread of free education and foundation of schools in the countryside is one of the sure solutions to this problem. Of all the Indian states, our state government has been regularly allotting the biggest chunk of the annual budget for the propagation of education, especially, at the primary stage. They are already being conducted on the governmental level. Furthermore, a school for a village is the avowed policy of our government. The teacher, have been granted handsome salary so that they can fully dedicate themselves to the cause of propagating mass-education. The public charitable and the social welfare organizations have come forward with the free adult education schemes. The students also have come forward with their fullest cooperation in this realm of spreading literacy amongst the poor villagers and slum-dwellers.
