EDUCATION
India has around 380 million illiterate people. That is the largest number of illiterates in any one country.
A greater part of the illiterate population resides in the villages where educational infrastructure just doesn’t exist. The states need to invest heavily to build and nurture an educational system that touches even the remotest part of our country. The rural population first needs to be educated about the power of education. Through direct contact and mass awareness programmes, rural parents must be coerced to send their children – including the girl child - to the nearest school.
Even in urban cities, states must create more professional education centres to keep pace with the rapid industrialisation and the ever increasing demand for well-qualified work force to fuel growth.
Some of the parameters considered here are literacy rate, reading ability and educational development.