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Literacy Rate 52.0%
Illiterate Population 289.5 millions
1995 figures estimated by UNESCO in 1998.

Functional Literacy (*IPCL Curriculum)
Core Content
Locally Relevant Content (LRC)
Main Area
Specific Topics Main Area Specific Topics
National Integration
- Communal Harmony
- Equality of All People
- Humanistic Approach to Caste
- Equal Rights to All
- Democracy
- Unity in Diversity
- Our Heritage
- Freedom Struggle in India
- Life Sketches of Freedom Fighters
- Geography of India
- Etc.
Health Services
- Need to Keep the Baby Clean
- Need to Keep the House and Surroundings Clean
- Safe Drinking Water
- Prevention of Diarrhoea
- Nutrition Deficiency Problems
- Low-Cost Nutritious Food
- First Aid
- Tuberculosis
- Spitting, Defecating, Urinating Indiscriminately
- Etc.
Women's Equality
- Women and Men are Equal
- Women's Role in Decision Making
- Right of Women to Take up Non- Stereotyped Roles
- Credit to Women's Traditional Work
- Education of Girls
- Life-Sketch of Women Noted for their Contributions
- Property Rights of Women
- Legal Rights of Women
- Equal Wages for Equal Work
- Welfare Programme for Women's Development
- Agencies Helping Women
- Etc.
Social Issues
- Drinking
- Indebtedness
- Bonded Labour
- Child Labour
- Child Marriage
- Female Infanticide
- Devadasi Custom
- History and Geography of District and State
- Etc.
Conservation of Environment
- Grow More Trees
- Bad Effects of Deforestation
- Air Pollution and its Prevention
- People's Relationship with Environment
- Etc.
Economic Issues
- Developmental Programmes
- Loan Facilities
- Co-operation
- Money Order Form
- Bank and Official Forms
- Etc.
Population Education
- Small Family is a Happy Family
- Right Age for Marriage
- Delayed Arrival of First Baby
- Spacing Between Two Children
- Boys and Girls are Equal
- Mother's Care
- Child Care and Immunisation
- Customs and Beliefs Related to Mother and Child's Health Issues, Male and Female Babies
- Effects of Population Growth on Resources/Development
- Etc.
Entertainment
- Poems
- Stories/Fiction
- Jokes
- Puzzles
- Picture Stories
- Games
- Etc.
Development of Scientific Temper
- Superstitions, Taboos and Beliefs
- Solar Eclipse
- Lunar Eclipse
- Relationship between Forests and Rain Water
- Etc.


Post-Literacy Phase
Main Area
Specific Topics
National Integration
- The concept of Nation given through a geographical map.
- Establish need for sharing.
- Stress on the greatness of the country.
- Reinforce communal harmony and cultural identity.
- Etc.
Environment
- Air, water and soil pollution, its main cause and effects, adverse effects of diminishing forests.
- How to preserve, promote and protect environment.
- Etc.
Population Education
- Small family norms, adverse effects of over-population on resources and quality of life.
- Etc.
Status of Women
- Participation of women in decision-making and development.
- Equal status, law of women, age of marriage, equal wages, anti-dowry.
- Etc.
Scientific and Technological Development
- Development in the areas of transportation, communication, medicine, etc.
- Development of scientific attitude.
- Etc.
Health
- Immunisation, maternity protection, child care.
- Personal and environmental cleanliness.
- Relationship between unclean water, food and diseases.
- Etc.
Learners' Spatial Relationship with the District and State
- Location of capital, utility, main industries, physical fitness.
- Etc.


Continuing Education
Main Area
Specific Topics
Individual Society
- We and Our Country
- National Integration
- Democracy
- Panchayati Raj
- Secularism
- Peaceful Co-Existence
- Equality of All Individuals
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Civic Senses
- Government Structures and their Functions
- Women's Empowerment
- Education of Girl Child
- Reservations for Women
- Legal Provisions for Women
- Special Programmes for Weaker Sections
- Lok Adalat
- Environmental Conservation
- Grow More Trees
- Etc.
Individual and Family
- Right Age for Marriage
- Human Reproductive System
- Physical Growth
- Puberty
- Small Family
- Inter-Spouse Communication
- Status of Women and Girls
- Proper Bringing up of Children
- Child Labour
- Child Education
- Responsible Parenthood
- Small Savings
- Account Keeping
- Dowry
- Drinking
- Etc.
Culture and Recreation
- India's Past Glory
- Our Values
- Builders of Modern India
- Freedom Struggle
- Saints of India
- Indian Festival
- Folklores
- Stories
- Beliefs, Customs and Superstitions
- National Phenomena (Eclipses)
- Development of Scientific Temper
- Etc.
Health and Hygiene
- Health Facilities
- Nutrition Programmes
- Family Planning Facilities
- Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)
- Etc.
Preventive Measures
- Sanitation
- Air
- Water
- Soil
- Smokeless Chulhas
- Food
- Hygiene
- Improved Latrines
- Etc.
First Aid and Home Remedies
- Cuts and Burns
- Skin Diseases
- Diarrhoea
- Dysentery
- Eye Sore
- Ear Sore
- Throat Sore
- Jaundice
- Cholera
- High Fever
- Snake Bite
- Simple Fracture
- Bleeding
- Etc.
Mother and Child Care
- Prenatal Care
- Anaemia
- Diet for Mothers
- Breast Feeding
- Supplementary Food for Babies
- Immunisation
- Etc.
Agents of Diseases
- Worms
- Flies
- Mosquitoes
- Cockroaches
- Lice
- Etc.
Common Diseases, Causes and Prevention
- Malaria
- Typhoid
- Polio
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis
- Cough
- Diarrhoea
- Jaundice
- Cholera
- Drug Abuse
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)
- AIDS
- Etc.
Vocational Development
Agriculture
- Soil Testing
- Irrigation
- Hybrid Variety Seeds
- Fertiliser
- Compost
- Pesticides
- Weedicides
- Harvesting
- Storing
- Marketing
- Improved Farm Implements
- Pump Set Care
- Threshers and Precautions
- Biogas
- Account Keeping
- Co-operatives
- Dry Land Farming
- Wasteland Development
- Horticulture
- Kitchen Gardening
- Forestry
- Etc.
Animal Husbandry
- Dairy
- Piggery
- Goatery
- Sheep Rearing
- Fishery
- Poultry
- Etc.
Industry
- Weaving
- Sericulture
- Tailoring
- Basket Making
- Paper Making
- Food Preservation
- Bottling
- Pickle Making
- Carpentry
- Blacksmithery
- Pottery
- Cycle Repair
- Maintenance of Sewing Machine
- Maintenance of Hand-Pumps
- Recycling Waste Material
- Soap Making
- Etc.
Note : IPCL = Improved Pace and Content of Learning
* Adopted by the National Literacy Mission, Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India in 1999.


"My Primer Part-1," Basic Level, National Literacy Mission, State Resource Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, 1996.


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