Question

how do the literacy help for the effective functioning of democracy

Answer 1

Literacy makes the voters educated and helps them in taking informed decisions as a voter.

An educated citizen can easily understand the decisions taken by the government.

Educated citizens are more likely to follow the laws.

They can question their elected representatives on the use of funds, welfare schemes for their area and their rights and responsibilities as a citizen.

Answer 2

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."- Frederick Douglass

• Literacy is the only tool to eradicate communalism and establish socialism in which a country could thrive.
• Even illiterate people could understand the ideas and welfare measures of every government but a literate could have a chance to find defects in it and they could make awareness about those defects among the illiterate.
• Literacy have the ability to eradicate the poverty.
• Literacy have the ability to teach equality.
• Literacy have the ability to lead an entire nation to success.