PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/ Dehradun
The State cabinet in meetings held on Thursday approved the proposal of the School Education department to declare Uttarakhand a fully literate State as per the norms mentioned in the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. With this, Uttarakhand becomes the sixth State in the country after Mizoram, Goa, Tripura, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim to achieve the milestone.
The adult literacy rate in Uttarakhand is 98 per cent. The Education minister Dhan Singh Rawat said that the State is meeting all the criteria and standards set under the central government’s Understanding of Lifelong Learning for All in Society (ULLAS) programme.
Pertinently, the central government’s ULLAS programme focuses on education for people over the age of 15. A State is considered “total literate” when the adult literacy rate reaches 95 per cent or more and the target of providing education to the non-literate population is achieved.
