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New Delhi.Female Literacy in the country was 8.86 per cent in 1951. To increase the female literacy rate, the Government had introduced several programmes, most importantly National Literacy Mission in 1988, on account of which the female literacy rate had increased to 53.67 per cent in 2001. However, 2001 Census also revealed that the gender gap in literacy was 21.59 per cent. Therefore, the Government have now launched Saakshar Bharat, a new variant of National Literacy Mission, with principal focus on women. The programme, along with other programmes like Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, aims to reduce the gender disparity from 21.59 per cent to 10 per cent by 2012.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development Smt. D. Purandeswari, in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today.
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