Define learning poverty and highlight its extent in India. Suggest your solutions to eradicate it.
Define learning poverty and highlight its extent in India. Suggest your solutions to eradicate it.
Learning Poverty and its extent:
- Learning Poverty is defined as the percentage of 10-year-olds who cannot read and understand a simple story.
- As per World Bank estimates, more than half (53%) of 10-year-old children in low- and middle-income countries either had failed to learn to read with comprehension or were out of school entirely.
- In India, nearly 55% of children are ‘learning-poor’ today, in spite of high levels of enrolment.
Solutions:
- Regular reading assessments and early literacy programs aligned with national goals.
- Equipping the teachers in multidimensional ways.
- Timely access to better age and skill appropriate texts.
- Instruction in the local language as far as possible.
- Roping in NGOs for better results.
Government schemes to address this issue:
- Padhe Bharat Badhe Bharat:
- The ‘Padhe Bharat Badhe Bharat’ (PBBB) is a sub-programme of erstwhile Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) to promote early reading and writing with comprehension skills in children, and also basic numeracy skills.
- NIPUN Bharat Initiative:
- National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN Bharat), for ensuring that every child in the country necessarily attains foundational literacy and numeracy by the end of Grade 3, by 2026-27.
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