Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal today said that the literacy rate of women in the country at present is at an unacceptable level of 54 percent.
While speaking at the 11th meeting of National Literacy Mission Authority here today, Sibal said, "While the total budgetary support during the last three plans for the programme was Rs. 2862.95 crores, the outlay for the 11th plan is at a much higher level of Rs.6000 crores".
Sibal stated that the Mission would be run in active participation with the State Governments unlike in the past when the mission was run directly from the Centre through the different implementation agencies at the district level.
He said that Adult Education Centres would be setup at the Gram Panchayat which will be the unit for implementation of the programme. The Panchayat will work in tandem with the community to implement the programme.
The HRD Minister underlined that a Curriculum Framework for Adult Literacy will be developed with adequate reflection of locally relevant issues and aspects.
"To ensure uniformly high standards, all the materials for basic education, equivalency and life-long learning will be quality-assured; Quality of Literacy Educators will be further augmented through participatory and learner centered process and a framework for learner assessment will be developed to assess the learning outcomes. Only on satisfactory outcome a learner will be declared literate", he added.
He pointed out that unlike in the past, each learner will be tagged and tracked for the learning achievement. Besides an efficient MIS system, concurrent monitoring systems will be put in place for field validation.
Thirty two of the forty four members of the NLMA participated in the Meeting, which passed the agenda put before it. C.P. Joshi, Union Minister for Rural Development, D. Purandeswari, Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Anshu Vaish, Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy were among those present in the meeting.
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