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 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$1,242 Billion Economy ranking 12 th ! Workforce467 million Agriculture workforce 66% Where we fail miserably.. By how much.. HDI Rank119 th Per Capita Income 1089$ 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 p ursue this mission with a greater enthusiasm.

Women empowerment Female infanticide, female foeticide and dowry eliminated Child Marriage curbed

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.