The number of children in Special Training Centres who could not even identify the alphabet reduced by around 19% after a reading campaign held in December 2018, as per figures presented by the education department’s Universal Elementary Education (UEE) mission.
As per the baseline assessment, 38.1% of the children assessed could not identify alphabet. The figure reduced to 18.9% post-assessment. Also, while only 11.2% of the assessed children were able to read a full paragraph at the beginning of the month, it increased to 24.5% in post-assessment.
Officials said more intensive campaigns will be held on other basic competencies in the future. In the first phase in April, the focus will be on alphabet recognition, and word and sentence formation in Hindi. In August, focus will be on numbers, addition and subtraction, and in December, students will learn basic language skills in English.
Read more of this in a report published in The Indian Express...
