Cause Of Illiteracy

CAUSES OF THE ILLETERACY

Every issue that our society faces is like a link of a chain. Each issue is connected to another, either directly or indirectly. The chain of issues in this society that we live in, the strongest link of that chain is illiteracy. Illiteracy is the mother of all issues as it gives birth to many other issues like poverty, unemployment, child labour, female foeticide, population burst and many more. It is very hard to digest that the land of the Vedas is one of the countries with the highest illiteracy levels and shows the inability of our government to utilize programs like Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and National Literacy Mission. Even countries like Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand and the like have achieved, in lesser

It is ironical that even today, our leaders and people’s representatives give literacy a very low priority, pitting poverty alleviation, food, clothing, shelter, work, health etc. above it. They fail to perceive literacy as part of the development process, as an endeavour to improve the quality of life, as the process of building awareness among the weaker sections, as part of democratisation of political power, as the arrangement to give their due, to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor. They are unable to appreciate the relevance of literacy in matters like infant mortality, immunisation, children’s participation in primary schools, population growth, family planning, women’s emancipation, social evils like child marriage, dowry, bride burning and so on. Neglecting the issue of illiteracy can hurt the development of India very

AT the San Francisco Conference at which the organization was established. President Truman of the United States in his closing speech to the Conference stated that under the Charter” We have good reason to expect the framing of an International Bill of Rights, acceptable to all the nations involved .That bill of rights will be as much part of International life as our own Bill of Rights is a part of our Constitution”. At the time of Crating the United Nations there was not t time to prepare than insert such a Bill of Rights and it was understood that one of the first duties of the organization would be to frame such a Bill. Accordingly, the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) asked its Human Rights Commission to prepare and international bill of rights. There was a division of opinion under which some wanted it in the form of a “Declaration” while the others desired a convention. As compromise, it was decided that two documents should be prepared, a “Declaration” wider in content and more general in expression and a convention on those matter which “might lend themselves to formulation as binding obligation”. Ultimately, the Declaration was adopted by the General Assembly unanimously by 48 votes with 8 abstentions on 10th December, 1948. Professor Sohn, after examining the drafting history of the declaration, has observed: “:there seems to be an