New Delhi, August 21: Literate India — a recast literacy programme under the National Literacy Mission Authority — will be launched next month in 365 districts across the country with a special focus on educating women and improving India’s female literacy level.
Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said the government has decided to “tweak” the NLMA to focus on women and the mission will be launched in these districts where female literacy levels are below 50 per cent.
“We are structurally changing the mission and adopting entire new strategies. We have decided to implement the new scheme with the help of Panchayati Raj institutions. We aim to bring the country’s literacy level to 80 per cent by 2017,” he told reporters after the 11th meeting of the NLMA council.
–PTI