2. ILLITERACY
ALPHABET OF IGNORANCE
By
JAWAHAR GUDURU
(B.TECH III/IV)
NIKHIL PRATHAPANI
(B.TECH III/IV)
JNTUH COLLEGE OF
ENGINEERING, KONDAGATTU,
KARIMNAGAR.

3. Contents
O Introduction
O Consequences
O Statistics ( India & Andhra Pradesh )
O Gender Bias in Education
O How to Eradicate?
O Fraternity
O Network formation
O Network Operation
O End Results
O Results of the Project implemented by “Team
Tejomaya”
O The only Possible solution/
O Conclusion

4. Introduction
O The National Literacy Mission defines
literacy as „acquiring the skills of reading,
writing and arithmetic and the ability to
apply them to one‟s day-to-day life‘.
O According to the guidelines laid down by the
UN, Illiteracy is defined as “The inability to
read and write a simple message in any
language.”

5. Consequences
O Effective learning and communication in this computer age is
difficult without literacy, so is acquisition and sharing of
knowledge and information. Literacy empowers the citizens of
the country with weapons of rational thinking, liberty,
cohesiveness and mutual understanding.
O Literacy is a big force in alienating undemocratic forces and
social and economic problems like terrorism, communalism etc.
O The above two major traits are missing due to the Illiteracy
prevailing in our country even after 65 years of Independence.

9. Biased Education
“Girls have Equal rights”

12. How to Eradicate?
O There may be many solutions to a problem but the
one with best feasibility of application in real life is
the best choice.
O To form a Fraternity ( network with mutual
understanding ) by gathering non – networked
students who are enthusiastic to serve the nation
and possessing the traits like selflessness,
relentless hard work play a key role in this fraternity

14. Competition in present
scenario
O We remain in competition when we are completely
aware of that.
O India is lacking in this context.
O So, Indians need that awareness.
O Means the people even in remote areas and exile
places would get cutting edge in competition and
meet the needs of Nation.
O In this way we are transforming them as useful
resources for the progress of Nation.

15. Project Results

16. O With a series of articles pouring out in the newspapers
highlighting the alarming problems pertaining to pedagogy in
general and inequities in girl education in specific .
O These problems related to inequities in girl literacy and high
drop out rates are predominantly seen in government schools.
O Therefore, as part of the Seva project, it was felt imperative to
work on educating the poor children and train students in
career guidance apart from raising awareness in the plethora of
options available for higher studies.
O As part of the Seva project two schools have been identified in
the vicinities of Nachupally and training was undertaken
through night schools.
O In the midst of realizing the broader aims of education the Seva
project was initiated to leave an indelible mark in the society.

17. O Primarily, the famous quotation by Nelson Mandela
“EDUCATION IS THE ONLY TOOL WITH YOU TO CHANGE
THE WORLD” inspired us to take up Education as our Seva
project.
O We decided to take a step ahead in bringing out the intellects
from the deprived part of our society, who would be the future
building blocks of our nation.
O We have adopted 2 government schools and we followed the
Scientific method of ―DIAGNOSTIC TEST‖, which relies on
―ENTRY LEVEL BEHAVIOUR‖ and ―END LEVEL
BEHAVIOUR‖ of the student.
O We have listed out all sorts of possibilities and feasible ways
so that our Seva would reach the students perfectly.
Planning

18. O Some of the innovative ideas that were implemented are:
O Teaching English through pictures. (The students from Telugu medium
background would be benefited a lot).
O Interaction with students in order to bring out the latent talent in them.
O Teaching them ethical values with the help of stories and also short
videos.
O Career Guidance to students to make them aware of the opportunities
available to them after School Education and also raise awareness
about different professions that they are expected to do in there. This
enabled the students to set an AIM and focus on it unyieldingly.
O Collecting regular feedback from the students and also school
management in order to identify academic areas where they need extra
attention and to bridge the gap.
O Coaching class V students to face JAWAHAR NAVODAYA Exam
conducted by the Central Government all over India.

19. O “Education is not the filling of a bucket,
but the lighting of a fire.”
O However, whatever said and done, if two hours a week can ensure a
bright future for an illiterate child, then every citizen must take part in
this campaigning. Right now, this seems the only way we can remove
the widespread illiteracy prevalent in India and help pave the way for
a progressive Young India.

20. O One of the major problems we face is lack of infrastructure. It is
not easy to create schools for our large and ever growing
population.
O Today ‗good‘ schools mean expensive schools, mostly private
which most lower middle class people cannot afford. That is the
fact—every year education gets more and more expensive. It is
a vicious cycle—the more the population, the more the
unemployment, and the more the unemployment, the more
illiteracy, and the more the illiteracy, the more the population will
keep growing! We need to break this cycle somewhere.
O And like they say, nothing is impossible! If
each one of us contributes in our own way,
we can make a difference.

21. References
O Article from EENADU Karimnagar front page dated : 26 –
08 – 2012.
O Image Courtesy : Census of India.
(all the images used may / may not copyright protected, they
are used only in social sense but not for any sort of
Reproduction or printing).
O Article in THE HINDU ―Business Line‖ on ―Why AP lags in
literacy levels”
by Mr.K. KANAGASABAPATHY.

22. Acknowledgements
O We are grateful to all the team members of “Team Tejomaya”
for their selfless, untiring and relentless efforts.
O We are thankful to
O Dr. K. Madhavi for her timely suggestions in concretizing the paper.
O Dr.M. Tirumalachary and Sri Krishna SaiCharan for their support
when we interviewed them for opinions.

23. GET WELL SOON……