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India celebrates World’s Literacy Day to be Incredible
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UNESCO, the United Nations of Educational, Science and Cultural Organization celebrate the World’s Literacy Day on September 8.
UNESCO, the United Nations of Educational, Science and Cultural Organization celebrate the World’s Literacy Day on September 8. They started celebrating from 1966 to highlight the importance and need of Literacy.
India celebrates this day in the Capital city New Delhi. The main theme of International Literacy Day 2014 is “Literacy and Sustainable Development” to create Prosperous and Peaceful Societies. Literacy is one of the key elements for the people, which would consider to be required to endorse the sustainable development.
Literacy is at the heart of basic education for all essential to eradicate the poverty, reducing the child mortality, curbing the population growth, achieving gender equality and ensuring sustainable development, peace and democracy. There are some good reasons why literacy is exhibiting at the core of Education to all.
More than half of the adult population in 11 countries was being illiterate. Some of the countries that are having very low rate of literacy are Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Haiti, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Sierra Leone.
However, our country is not that less in literacy rate (74.4 %), but definitely, there is a need to increase our literacy to endorse the nation, until it becomes an Incredible India.
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