India is a 1.2+ billion people large country.
India ranks 134 in a list of 179 countries, as listed by UN Development Programme in their 2009 report, ahead of some African countries and a few countries from Asia and Latin America.
India's literacy rate hangs around the 74% mark, which means there are atleast 100-200 million illiterates in India.
Only 64% Women in India are educated (aged 7 and above).
If half of the world's best engineers and technicians are Indians, and half the world comes to India for medical treatment, imagine the magic we could weave with 100% literacy!
Let every child experience the path to glory, let every child be schooled. Girls, boys, rich, poor, mountain girls or fisherman's son... God didn't discriminate us, why should we lesser mortals do so?
The central government, in a tie-up with DD, came out with this campaign to help reach people in every corner of the country and "educate them about education".
As a school going kid, it was a beautiful feeling watching this long advertisement/campaign. It's sure to light a smile on your face.
7 years later, Sachin and NDTV bring back the same tunes from inside my heart and fund 140 schools via a fund-raiser.
Do whatever you can to help educate kids. Give them, they will have for a while. Teach them the trick, and they will live off it forever. Poverty will be wiped off the face of the earth.
Education is a right, not a choice.
I dedicate this post to all of Africa.
Good work again
ReplyDeletewhen most people die of hunger/poverty, not a bread to eat, chauvinistic minded men...how do we expect 100% literacy rate???
ReplyDelete@anonymous - thanks.
ReplyDelete@Maha - If 90% can be achieved, so can 100%. in an idealistic state...(though that is a far fetched thought)