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Education is the key to development. For development to be self-sustaining it has to be accompanied by corresponding changes in the attitudes values, knowledge and skills of the people and the only way this change can come about is through education. And yet 48% population of India is illiterate. To combat this problem adult literacy programme has been going on since 1978, in one form or the other. Under National Literacy Mission, launched in 1988, a compaign approach has been adopted. Set-up for providing academic and technical resource support to adult education program. State Resource Centres in each state work as the academic power houses.
SRC, Indore, established in 1985, has been alloted to -BGMS a state level NGO, which has been working for leadership development among rural women since 1961. For its outstanding work in the field of adult literacy, the organization has also received Nehru Literacy Award in 1979. With support from Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Government of India, SRC has been providing qualitative, academic and techno
pedagogical resource support to literacy program in Madhya Pradesh since its inception. The support systems include preparation of teaching learning and training material, imparting training tp literacy functionaries, evaluating TLC's/PLC's, conducting research studies, production and distribution of literature for neoliterates, multimedia work and implementing innovative, supportive and research oriented projects.
In view of the paradigm shift in implementation of adult education program from traditional centre based programme to campaign approach where districts take up Total Literacy Campaign followed by Post Literacy and Continuing Education the SRC's have a multifarious role to display in providing resource support to the districts from the planning stage of total literacy campaign till their conclusion and then with post literacy and continuing education. Though SRC does not implement the programme but it associates itself closely with the implementing agencies such as Zila Saksharata Samitis (District Literacy Campaign Committees) and with other agencies like voluntary organizations and educational institutions implementing the programme in the state. |
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