Policy & Planning
Current Literacy / Non-formal Education Objectives /Strategies
The goal of the National Literacy Mission is to attain full literacy, i.e. a sustainable threshold level of 75 % by 2005. The mission seeks to achieve this goal by imparting functional literacy to non-literates in the 15-35 age group. This age group has been the focus of attention because they are in the productive and reproductive period of life. The total literacy campaign offers them a second chance, in case they missed the opportunity or were denied access to mainstream formal education.
The mission also takes into its fold children in the 9.14 age group, in areas not covered by non-formal education programmes to reach the benefits of literacy to out-of-school children as well. The major thrust of these programmes is on the promotion of literacy among women, scheduled castes and tribes and backward classes.
The National Literacy Mission eventually aims at ensuring that the total literacy campaigns and their sequel, the post-literacy campaigns, successfully move on to continuing education, which provides life-long learning and is responsible for the creation of a learning society.
Strategy to achieve the set goals
- Adopted a national strategy in mission mode to take care of the need for diversity of approach and inter -regional variations.
- Stress on proper environment building and active participation of the people, especially women.
- Encourage joint efforts by Governmental and Non-Governmental organisations.
- Preparation of local specific primers in local languages.
- Integrated approach to total literacy and post-literacy programmes to tackle the problem of residual illiteracy and to reduce the time gape between TLC and PLP.
- Stress on vocational training of neo-literates to facilitate linking literacy with life skills.
Source: ACCU