International Literacy Day 2016 celebrated on Sept 8
Q. International Literacy Day was celebrated on September 8, 2016 across the world. What was the theme?- Published on 09 Sep 16a. Reading the Past, Writing the Future
b. Reading the Future, Writing the Past
c. Reading and Writing the Future
d. Reading and Writing the Past
ANSWER: Reading the Past, Writing the Future
The International Literacy Day was celebrated on Sept 8, 2016 across the world.
- The theme of the day was “Reading the Past, Writing the Future”
- Theme was chosen to honour past 5 decades of national and international engagement efforts and progress made to increase literacy rates across the world
- Theme also addresses current challenges and looks to innovative solutions to further boost literacy in the future
- Literacy is also part of the Sustainable Development Goals aiming to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
- Target by 2030 is that all youth and considerable number of adults achieve literacy and numeracy
- As per the Census 2011 report, illiteracy rate in India is 22 percent
- Kerala is the most literate state with 93.91 percent and Lakshadweep at 92.28 percent
- Bihar and Telangana have the lowest literacy with 63.82 percent and 66.50 per cent illiterate people respectively
- In 2014, literacy rate of India rose by 10 percent
- India is the world’s largest population of illiterates
- Illiteracy is high among many communities in India
- Jains are thee most literate community above 7 years of age among religious communities, 86.73 percent of them are literate
- Close to 61.6 percent men and 38.4 percent women have studied up to graduation or above
- As per UNESCO new Global Education Monitoring report, India will be expected to attain universal primary education in 2050, secondary education in 2060 and upper secondary education in 2085.
- First World Literacy Day was celebrated on 8th September 1966
- It was proclaimed by UNESCO in 1965
- On this day 5 Literacy Prizes are conferred namely International Reading Association Literacy Award, Noma Literacy Prize, UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize, The Malcolm Adiseshiah International Literacy Prize and UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy.
