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Sunday, Sep 12, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Minister vows to wipe out illiteracy in three years

By Our Staff Reporter

GUNTUR, SEPT. 11. Illiteracy will be wiped out from the State in three years following the new education policy of the State Government and proper implementation of schemes, the Minister for School Education, Nedurumalli Rajyalakshmi, told reporters here on Saturday.

She said that the Telugu Desam Government had initiated several schemes for improving the literacy rate, but their lack of seriousness in successfully implementing the schemes had led to the literacy rate remaining stagnant at 69 per cent, though they aimed to achieve 100 per cent literacy by 2005.

NRIs help sought

The State Government had formed the Literacy Mission and proper persons appointed to take the mission clubbed with vision to its logical end in a time-bound manner, she observed. She appealed to NRIs to supplement the Government's efforts in providing proper infrastructure even in remote places.

Referring to the recruitment of teachers under the DSC-2003, the Minister said it would be taken up only after the Court gave its verdict and the State Government would take all measures to initiate recruitment process at the earliest.

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