Basic literacy Assessment Examination, which is conducted under the Sakshar Bharat Programme, will be held in the last week of September or first week of October. Final date of this examination has not been decided, so far, due to recent disaster.
Uttarakhand State literacy Mission Authority project manager SB Joshi on Friday said that the aim of the SB programme is to promote adult education and create a literate society in the State. Persons aged 15 years and above can enroll themselves to appear in the forthcoming basic literacy examination. Joshi further added that Panchayats have been given target in order to increase enrollment of the illiterate adults.
Bageshwar district has been assigned target of 5500 students which included enrollment of least 14 illiterate adults in each Panchayat, while 6500 to Champawat which included 22 in each gram Panchayat, 25, 000 to Haridwar including 83 in each gram Panchayat, 15, 000 to Tehri including 16 in each gram Panchayat, 23, 000 to Udhamsinghnagar including 75 in each gram Panchayat, 10, 000 to Uttarkashi including 22 in each gram Panchayat.
Around 2,200 adult education centres have been set up at the district, block and panchayat levels in the state. Each centre is run by two motivators, at least one of them a woman. Nodal officers have been appointed at state, district and panchayat level and they have been directed to complete their assigned duty.
Joshi further said that a delegation consisting education officers from Nepal along with Dr RP Pathak, senior consultant, Directorate of Adult Education, New Delhi visited three adult education centres in Uttarakhand and appreciated the works done by the officers concerned there. According to him, Basic literacy Assessment Examination phase-I was held on August, 2010 at different adult education centres established across the State and 29, 856 students were appeared in this examination.