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Rajya Sabha
The male literacy rate has increased by 11.13 per cent (from 64.13 per cent to 75.26 per cent) and female literacy rate by 14.38 per cent (from 39.29 per cent to 53.67 per cent) during the same period. The number of literate persons has increased from 359.28 million in 1991 to 560.68 million in 2001, thus adding an additional 201.40 million literates in the country.
The Universalisation of Elementary Education and eradication of adult illiteracy form the two-pronged strategy for improving the literacy of the country. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is a comprehensive programme for universalizing quality Elementary Education by 2010.
The National Literacy Mission (NLM) is entrusted with the target of achieving a sustainable 75 per cent literacy rate by 2007. The thrust areas of NLM are improving female literacy in low female literacy areas, organizing projects for residual illiteracy in districts, which have substantial number of illiterates, setting up of continuing education centres for providing opportunities for life long learning to the neo-literates and imparting vocational training to new-literates through Jan Shiksha Sansthans. Special programmes for Residual Illiteracy have been taken up in the low female literacy districts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand.
As per Census 2001, Rajasthan reported the highest growth in literacy rate for all persons (20.71 per cent). Barmer district of Rajasthan with 36.20 per cent increase and Kanker district of Chhatisgarh with 39.12 per cent increase in mal and female literacy rates respectively top the list of the districts in decadal growth in the country.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Shri M.A.A. Fatmi in Rajya Sabha today.
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