Hope on Waves : Unique ‘Boat School’ of Varanasi

Rashid's Blog: An Educational Portal

Once an abode of learning, India, today, has the largest population of illiterates in the world. It is an irony that the land of the Vedas is one of the countries with the high illiteracy levels.

Spread and diffusion of literacy are associated with the essential feature of today’s civilization. There is a relationship between literacy and productivity and overall quality of human life on the other.

India is developing but at a very slow rate, this is not the fault of only a corrupt system; it is due to this problem of illiteracy also. Literacy enables a person to think rationally, to be understanding, to be more responsible and to take good decisions. It is said that Democracy is of the people, for the people and by the people, but there is no use if people can not  make the right choice for their betterment.

A unique initiative to…

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