Give an article on illiteracy is a blot on our democracy
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Literacy is a precious gift which helps a person to express his potential. It is the ability to understand, create, compute and communicate using written materials. It empowers an individual to participate fully in the wider society and lead a self reliant life.
Simply speaking, literacy is the ability to read, write, spell, listen and speak.
Democracy is a government of the people, by the people and for the people. It allows people to participate in the governance. It provides self government at the grass root level. The representatives are responsible to the citizens.
In short, democracy is a system of government in which all the people of a state or polity are involved in making decisions about its affairs by voting to elect representatives to a parliament.
In such a polity literacy plays a very important role. But in India still a large number of people do not know the 3 'R's that is reading, writing and arithmetic, therefore we can say that illiteracy is a blot on our democracy.