Man is no better than a beast
without education. Education is light, which illuminates all dark corners of
human brain. It is not merely learning three R’s, i.e., Reading, Writing and
Arithmetic. It is a change from good to better and better to best. Thus and
educated person is one who grows creatively, without change in creativity life
remains dull and drab.
India lives in her
villages. There are millions of uneducated people live in her/our villages.
These people do a number of jobs to earn their livelihood. As a result of
illiteracy of these millions, nation is relegated to backwardness. Education
gives them, new skills and talents and it increases their efficiency.
India, with its lofty idea of
education to rural millenium, launched National Adult Education Programme
(NAEP) in 1978, followed by the State Adult Education Programme (SAEP), which
accounted rather modest results. In 1985, Rajiv Gandhi government, which took
office included literacy as one of its Technology Missions, and on May 5th
1988 the Prime Minister launched the National Literacy Mission (NLM). All these
programmes took shape into Total Literacy Campaigns (TLCs) proved outstanding
success in Ernakulam district, by the then collector of Ernakulam shaping into
fully literate district by over 20,000 volunteers involved to educate more than
1.5 lakh illiterates. Each volunteer had put in around 240 hours over a
six-month period to achieve this Herculean task. By February 4th
1990, the date which, the Prime Minister V.P. Singh declared Ernakukam the
first literate district in the country.
Thus, today the Government of
India (GoI) is spending millions of rupees on Adult Education. Though Adult
Education Programme gives Education to the countryside adult agriculture
labourer and it dispels his idleness. Farm labourers by the help of their
education they may put his leisure in productive way but the achievements of
AEP are not satisfactory. Let us wish Adult Education Programme should be a
successful one though it is an image of gold with feet of clay and hope for
golden harvest.
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