NewzVille Desk
Uttarakhand will soon join the ranks of fully literate states. The state is meeting the literacy benchmarks set under the Central Government’s ULLAS (Understanding Lifelong Learning for All in Society) program.
A proposal to declare the state fully literate will be placed before the upcoming cabinet meeting, and upon approval, it will be submitted to the Government of India.
Education Minister Dr. Dhan Singh Rawat has directed officials from the School Education Department to submit the proposal regarding the ‘fully literate state’ status to the government administration.
The Education Minister stated that the state’s current literacy rate exceeds 98 percent. He noted that under the central government’s ULLAS program, special emphasis was placed on basic literacy, critical life skills, vocational skills, basic education, and continuing education for adults across the state.
To achieve this, villages were adopted—with the cooperation of social organizations, corporate entities, and aware citizens—to make illiterate adults literate.
This initiative primarily focused on women, Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), and other marginalized groups. Priority was given to areas where the female literacy rate was below 60 percent.
Dr. Rawat mentioned that five states have already achieved this significant milestone: Mizoram, Goa, Tripura, Himachal Pradesh, and Sikkim.
The status of a ‘fully literate’ state is determined under the Central Government’s ULLAS program, which focuses on the education of individuals aged 15 and above.
According to the government, a state is considered ‘fully literate’ when the adult literacy rate reaches approximately 95 percent or higher and the objective of extending education to non-literate individuals has been fulfilled.
