The State Government is committed to achieving 80 per cent literacy rate and reduce the gender gap of literacy. The education Minister, Mantri Prasad Naithani informed this while addressing a programme organised at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on the occasion of ‘World literacy Day’ on Monday.
The President of India Pranab Mukherjee felicitated outstanding performers of the Sakshar Bharat programe on the occasion.
Naithani said that the State literacy Mission of Uttarakhand has taken up a task to bring 5 lakh illiterate people into the fold of literacy in six districts of State by the year 2015. Naithani said that the Government has constituted a comprehensive work plan to achieve the desired literacy levels in the State.
He said that efforts are being made to bring down the difference in literacy levels of male and female population of State and to reduce the social and regional discrimination arising out of gender gap the Panchayati Raj department has been asked to coordinate between the literacy centres and industrial and vocational education institutes.
The State literacy mission is working in the districts of Tehri, Bageshwar, Uttarakashi, Haridwar, Udham Singh Nagar and Champawat.
The Minister highlighted the role inter personal media campaign to make the Shakshar Bharat programe more effective in Uttarakhand.
The Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani also addressed the programme which was attended by the officials involved in the literacy mission in the country.