Article on Illiteracy is a blot on the face of democracy
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Illiteracy A Blot On The Face Of Democracy
The goals of democracy can never be achieved until 100% literacy is achieved in any democracy. An illiterate person is like a person who has a car but doesn't know how to drive it. Democracy will cease to be democracy in case illiteracy is not obliterated. An illiterate person is prone to fall prey to anti-democratic practices such as corruption, favourism, not being able to see the vested interests of the parties in power. Such illiterate persons can be influenced easily by ill practices such as faulty opinion making, selling votes in return of some favour or money. In the backward states in India where the number of illiterate people is quite high in villages, the ruling parties often lure these illiterates into so many traps to secure votes. For example they are given short term benefits just to secure votes. Is this democracy? In the name of democracy, an antediluvian and barbaric way of forming government. Nor is any development possible without eradication illiteracy. Before a nation goes democratic, first of all complete and quality democracy must be ensured. Only literate and truly educated people can handle democracy. The rest is farce!
The goals of democracy can never be achieved until 100% literacy is achieved in any democracy. An illiterate person is like a person who has a car but doesn't know how to drive it. Democracy will cease to be democracy in case illiteracy is not obliterated. An illiterate person is prone to fall prey to anti-democratic practices such as corruption, favourism, not being able to see the vested interests of the parties in power. Such illiterate persons can be influenced easily by ill practices such as faulty opinion making, selling votes in return of some favour or money. In the backward states in India where the number of illiterate people is quite high in villages, the ruling parties often lure these illiterates into so many traps to secure votes. For example they are given short term benefits just to secure votes. Is this democracy? In the name of democracy, an antediluvian and barbaric way of forming government. Nor is any development possible without eradication illiteracy. Before a nation goes democratic, first of all complete and quality democracy must be ensured. Only literate and truly educated people can handle democracy. The rest is farce!
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