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Towards Total Literacy
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.
Indian Government has introduced and initiated many adult literacy programs to promote education among the illiterate adults. National Literacy Mission launched in 1988 is quite a significant adult literacy program. By 2007 NLM had made approximately 127.45 million people literate.
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 or, an antediluvian and barbaric way of forming government In the name of democracy? 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.
Illiterate adults can contribute to the nation building by being literate in a far better manner. Apart from the NLM, Indian Government has taken many more initiatives to promote adult education. Open schools, skill development programs, each one teach one literacy drive, etc. are a few of them. We as citizens must contribute at our level in the literacy promotion programs. The least we can do is teach basic literacy to an illiterate adult.