Chacko Anthony
Statistics are frightening.
Reports say that 773 million adults and young people lack basic skills. 617 million children and adolescents are not achieving minimum proficiency in reading and counting.
Covid 19 disrupted literacy and learning process. But we cannot blame it all on Covid the menace. Covid did not create illiteracy.
Education is a human right. So is literacy. It is the poor, the economically powerless and the socially marginalised who are deprived of facilities of literacy and learning.
The world needs to pay attention to this factor. Political leaders wax eloquent about the need for literacy and education. But, when it comes to ground realities, their efforts are not felt or seen.