The buck stops with us - Literacy

While India has one of the best technically trained man power in the world , it fares awfully bad in the lower end of the system. Two third of the children who enroll in the primary schools drop out by the sixth year. Various studies have shown that public spending on primary education yields exceptionally high economic returns. Indian governments spend on education is just 3% of the GDP as compared to the Asian countries 8% plus. Surprisingly states where there is more illiteracy have worse figures than national average. But more shocking is that most of those who take basic education relapse to illiteracy. This is because reading and writing is not a pleasure but a burden. Literacy will be retained and pursued only when it helps improve the quality of life.

I believe all citizens who are fortunate to be educated should come forward to work towards eliminating illiteracy. The only way we can bring prosperity to this country is by making people functionally literate. It will be criminal if we allow the hard work and limited resources spent by the government and volunteers go waste by not enabling the learners retain the literacy obtained. It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. So let’s Lead.