Scheme of Continuing Education for Neo-Literates

Abstract

The experience in the field of Adult Education in India, as those of several other countries, shows that in the absence of a learning environment and effective programmes of post-literacy and continuing education, the efforts made in literacy programmes yield extremely limited results. Therefore, in 1982-83 the Government started funding a post-literacy and continuing education programme^ and specified the duration of the basic literacy, post-literacy and follow-up programmes as 350, 150 and 100 hours over a period of 3 years. Later, based on monitoring and feedback from the implementing agencies, a new time-frame of 8 months of basic literacy plus 4 months of post-literacy and 1 year of follow-up was adopted in 1985 which reduced the total period of 3 years to 2 years, keeping intact the total duration of 600 hours.