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Literacy
Literacy attainments in Karnataka are still average.
Census data indicates that literacy rate moved from 30% in
1961 to 67.4% in 2001. Gender, caste, and urban-rural and
regional inequities persist.
Urban literacy is 81.05%; rural literacy 59.68%
Male literacy is 76.29%; female literacy is 57.45%
Rural female literacy even as per 2001 census is as low as
48.5% with literacy rates in Gulbarga and Raichur
lingering at around 29%.
Rural SC female literacy rates in Gulbarga and Raichur is
even lower.
Initiatives in literacy
First efforts Vishweshwariah started Vigyan;
operationalised 3000 rural libraries in Mysore.
In the 1940s, MSAEC set up to develop reading material:
Belaku, its weekly magazine is published even today.
Post independence efforts focused on social and workers
education.
FFLP in the 1960s reached out to the relatively well off
farmer; left marginal farmers, agricultural labourers,
chiefly women, outside its scope.
NAEP in 1978, conceptualised to draw in NGOs, youth for
literacy skills and social awareness, was short lived.
The campaigns approach rekindling
hope
Started with Bijapur and DK - sense
of determination and excitement
unsurpassed.
Extended in phases thruout the state.
Partnership with Mahila Samakhya
forged.
Against 80 lakh people proposed to be
covered, 35 lakhs achieved
predetermined levels of literacy.
KNSN introduced in 1997-98 to reach
the unreached.
PL&CE suffered due to organisational
fatigue. Massive relapse likely.
Some sustainable models have
emerged - NDLS in DK.
Campaigns have had huge positive
outcomes for UPE.
Pre-primary education
Pre primary education and nutrition
taken up through 40,170 anganwadi
centres.
All AWWs undergo a 3 month JOC at 24
AWTCs. Refresher training is sporadic.
Huge charter of responsibilities; deptl
and community support systems
virtually absent.
Pre-school focus is primarily on songs
and stories: concepts of shape, size,
colour through thematic approach. Even
the highly motivated cannot cope.
Pre school education (3-6 years)
hampered by lack of age specific
techniques for child interaction,
inadequate/ inappropriate play material,
complete absence of drawing material
and poor infrastructure.
Elementary education: number of
institutions
Rapid increase in primary schools from 25800 in 1960 to over
48,000 in 1998-99.
6th AIES indicates
S/Govt norms for opening new schools have since been revised; all
habitations with a 200+ population have an LPS.
80% of the schools are government schools: aided and unaided
institutions account for 10% each.
Elementary education: enrolment
This school, its timings, textbooks, curriculum has been designed for which
child? Whose school is it anyway? For the child who has, but it is being run
in the name of the child who has not. I feel our schools should be
restructured from the perspective of the deprived child.
Latif
The school is actually meant for the poor. People with money always find
ways for their children to learn. We have to eliminate needless inequality of
opportunity. We have to ensure that the poor children learn.
Kodanramreddy
The education system should reach out to children from the most deprived
families. The whole system needs to change to make this happen.
Vijaya Kumari
Thank
you