Literacy Campaign in India: Chief Ministers' Conference 15th February 1994

Abstract

From Preface: The National Literacy Mission was launched on 5th May 1988 and has now been in existence tor more than live years. During this period, the Mission has made spectacular achievements. The success story of Ernakulam Total Literacy Campaign was followed by many more districts in different parts and states of the country. Today, literacy campaign approach has been adopted as the dominant strategy under the Mission and campaigns are underway in 258 districts in different parts in the country today. The goal that the National Literacy Mission set for itself was not merely the achievement of the 3R’s but achievement of functional literacy and acquiring of functional awareness of national values by the neoliterates. Thus, the campaigns which have been taken up in a large part of the country today have not merely been campaigns for literacy but have also been campaigns for family welfare, immunisation, maternal and child health care, conservation of environment, peace, communal harmony, cohesion and national Integration, universallsatlon ot enrollment and retention in the formal school system etc. Thus, there have been several exciting and interesting and positive spin offs beneficial to the individual as also the community.