News Desk : dhakamirror.com
About 24.40 percent of adults aged 15 and over remain illiterate, although the ruling Awami League pledged in its 2008 election manifesto to end illiteracy by 2014. The goal of achieving universal literacy by 2014 was also set out in the National Education Policy 2010 created in 2009 by the AL-led government.
At least 48.8% of those who were 15 years of age and older were illiterate in 2008, according to BBS Literacy Assessment Survey 2008.
The literacy rate for people aged 15 and older is 75.6%, state minister for primary and mass education Zakir Hossen said yesterday, citing the Bangladesh Sample Vital Statistics 2020 released by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.
We won’t be able to make the development we want if we can’t get the 24.4 percent of illiterate people to read and write, he said yesterday at a press conference to mark International Literacy Day.
There are two methods of becoming literate: through formal education and adult literacy programs. The country has historically placed more emphasis on formal education than adult literacy programs.
Right now, Bangladesh is observing World Literacy Day with the theme of ‘Reworking Literacy Study Areas’.
