ADLUT LITERACY
Good Afternoon.
As we all know that education is very important for all age group people and it is a lifelong process.
Education process is not limited to any age, person, place or other limitation of the life. It can be continued all through the life because it does not end with the schooling./
Individual education plays great role in the development and growth of life, person, society and country. Being a democratic country without educated people, is useless. India is a sovereign democratic republic country struggling hard for becoming the developed country like other countries in the world.
Education helps a person to develop to its fullest extent and makes one able to perform duties and responsibilities according to the interests, efficiency and abilities.
The level of education in India in the past time was very much anxious however it is being better day by day.
The education status of adult in India is very bad however going ahead on the road of planned progress. There has been some revolutionary changes as well in the Indian society. Modern adult need to tackle the complexities of society by understanding the need of rapid changing world. Education helps a person to develop to its fullest extent and makes one able to perform duties and responsibilities according to the interests, efficiency and abilities.
The level of education in India in the past time was very much anxious however it is being better day by day.
The education status of adult in India is very bad however going ahead on the road of planned progress. There has been some revolutionary changes as well in the Indian society. Modern adult need to tackle the complexities of society by understanding the need of rapid changing world.
There should be good education system for all the citizens to fight the social evils of poverty, unemployment, ignorance, ill-health, illiteracy, child abuse, molestation, etc in the society.
All the social evils can be abolished only through the tool of education. There is illiteracy in the Indian society because of the lack of proper adult education. Adult education is the only tool to remove illiteracy from society.
Adult education can be categorized under fundamental education, mass education of people, workers education, further education, basic education, community education and social education, etc in order to educate the people at different level. According to the Mahatma Gandhi, adult education can be said as education for life, through life and throughout the life.
According to a report published in UNESCO India records for the highest population of non-literate adults- 287 million, amounting to 37% of the global total.
Education, to a great extent steer the development of a country . India has faced many hurdles in shaping up a holistic, inclusive education system that would adequately address the issue of mass illiteracy. Since Independence, the Government of India has undertaken many initiatives to make education accessible to the masses.
However in the process there has always remained a generation that has been deprived from the privilege of going to a school.
These uneducated adults include the farmers that work in the sun to grow the food that you eat year long, the maids that keep your houses prim and proper, and the scavengers who clean the city off its filth.
They have had low expectations from life and low esteem for themselves and have always thought that education is for the urban rich.
However this mindset is gradually changing since the launch of various governmental schemes for adult education since the First Five Year Plan, the most notable of which being National Literacy Mission launched in 1988 and the most recent one being Saakshar Bharat launched in 2009.
The current literacy rate stated by Census 2011, male literacy rate stands at 82.14% and female literacy rate stands at 65.46%.
‘Adult Literacy’ forms an integral part of Rotary India Literacy Mission’s T-E-A-C-H program. RILM acknowledges the importance of educating an adult and has been working relentlessly to take education to adults across India, who have not got a chance to receive formal education.
The Adult Literacy program focuses on imparting functional literacy to non-literate adults above the age of 15 and train them on developing their skills to meet industry standards for procuring jobs.
As of date, RILM has reached out to 61,500 student volunteers who have taught one or more adults over a period of 2.5 to 3 months.
The Rotarians have set up several hundreds of Swabhimaan Centres across the country, where 8,041 adults have experienced the renewed joy of learning. For this year we are targeting to bring 1,00,000 adults under the purview of the Adult Literacy program.
In this endeavor RILM has entered into meaningful partnerships with the Government, organizations working in the field of literacy and skill development and corporates to provide learning and growth opportunities to the adults who still remain in the darkness of illiteracy.
RILM has forged partnership with National Literacy Mission Authority and MKCL, an organization focusing on skill development, to name a few.
Today you are going to witness the forming of couple of more such partnerships with Loomba Foundation and Labour Net , which will further drive RILM towards realizing its vision of Total Literacy and Quality Education.
5 March 2017