Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar
- PC : Deccan Chronicle
Emphasizing that education is not just the ability to read and write, Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar has recently said that the government is determined to make India 100 per cent literate.
“There was a literacy rate of 18% in the post independence era. Today it has gone up to 80% and I guarantee that within next five years, it will be 100%," said Javadekar, on the sidelines of ‘Festival of Education’ organised by the Rajasthan government recently.
The top five quotes of the minister on our education system as follows.
Students of classes 6 to 12 will be trained with what to do if he has illiterate parents and grandparents.
A girl from an impoverished family or a farmer's daughter can become an IAS officer of the same district - this power is held only by education and by no other facility.
The purpose of education is not just employment; that is just one part of the story; knowledge is also a part.
We have created the higher education finance agency from which we are investing 3 billion dollars into higher education, essentially to create and upgrade the research infrastructure in various higher education societies.
Every child is different, every child comes with their own potential; the work of education is to understand that individual potential and encourage it to help it grow.
