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India's literacy rate up from 74 pc to 80.9 pc in 13 years: Dharmendra PradhanIndia's literacy rate has significantly improved, reaching 80.9% in 2023-24, as highlighted by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan....- Himachal a 'fully literate state', achieves 99.3% literacy rate: CM Sukhvinder Singh SukhuHimachal Pradesh has been declared a fully literate state. The state's literacy rate has reached 99.3 percent, surpassing the national benc...
- International Literacy Day 2025: The history and significance of a day that reshaped global educationInternational Literacy Day 2025 emphasizes literacy as vital for dignity and opportunity, highlighting progress since its 1966 inception. W...
- ADB asks Pakistan to adopt Indian plan on educationThe Asian Development Bank has suggested Pakistan adopt India's ULLAS scheme to improve its education system. The recommendation follows Pa...
- Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif declares education emergency on International Literacy DayPakistan has declared an education emergency to address the issue of 26 million out-of-school children. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif annou...
- September 2022 calendar: Check full list of holidays, festivalsSeptember is a busy month, the last one before we step into fall. There’s just one federal holiday for Labor Day. However, this month will ...
- Government working tirelessly towards 'Education for All' mission: Amit ShahThe International Literacy Day 2020 focuses on 'Literacy teaching and learning in the COVID-19 crisis and beyond', especially on the role o...
- International Literacy Day: Origins, significance and what lies aheadAt the 14th session of Unesco's general conference in 1966, September 8 was declared as the International Literacy Day. And it was celebrat...
- Ten development efforts that will take India's literacy to new heightsThere is need to extend it beyond rote learning of concepts. It should largely focus on cognitive development to a belief that values the u...
- IITs, IIMs will be roped in for speedy assessment and accreditation of educational institutes: Prakash JavadekarThe minister's comments came against the backdrop of the University Grants Commission (UGC) in August clearing a proposal to allow more acc...
- International Literacy Day: 758 million people in the world are not literate
- Set age-wise target for complete literacy by 2016: Smriti IraniIrani today asked officers of the adult literacy mission to fix age-wise target to attain complete literacy in the next one year.
- Government sets March 2016 target of 100 per cent literacy in villagesThe announcement came as President Mukherjee regretted that India still lagged behind some of its neighbours in achieving 100% literacy
- N Chandrababu Naidu seeks corporates' help to turn Andhra Pradesh into knowledge hubThe Chief Minister appealed corporates to donate 2 pct of their revenue to the education sector of the state to transform it into a knowled...
- Bring literacy rate on par with world's leading societies, says President Pranab MukherjeePresident Pranab Mukherjee today emphasised on stepping up efforts toward complete eradication of illiteracy from the country.
- Improve literacy level to match advanced nations: Pranab MukherjeeThe President lauded the initiatives taken so far to achieve a four-fold increase in literacy levels from 18 per cent in 1951 to 74 per cen...
- 72 per cent of neo-literates are womenDeprived of a chance to study for generations, women from Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan are now grabbing the opportunity with both hand...
- President pitches for comp education to check cyber crimeWith cyber crime incidents on the rise, President Pratibha Patil on Monday pitched for proliferation of computer education as part of ongoi...
- Neo-literates to get exposure to scheduled languageAdult education programme in India is all set to enter a new phase to enable neo-literates, taught in their mother tongue, get exposure to ...
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