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Today the whole world is celebrating the 58th anniversary of International Literacy Day. The day was started by UNESCO on 26 October 1966 during the 14th Mahasammelan of the agency. Literacy Day was first celebrated on 8 September 1967. Since then, this day is celebrated every year on 8 September.
Theme- Literacy in the digital age
This year is the theme of International Literacy Day – promoting literacy in the digital age.
By reading and writing on paper, literacy in the digital age means that people can reach the digital content safely and appropriately, understand, prepare it and share it.
Private coaching is taking 1 school out of every 4 school
According to the Comprehensive Modular Survey of the Central Government, the CMS report, one-fourth of the country’s children, or 1 out of every 4 children, are taking private tuition in addition to school.
According to the report, 30.7% students in urban areas are taking private coaching while in rural areas this figure is 25.5%. A total of 27% of school students are studying in private coaching.
Only 1.2% students are studying on scholarship
95% of the students spent on school education said that the first major financial source of their studies is family members. This trend is the same in both rural (95.3%) and urban (94.4%) areas. Only 1.2% of the students reported that the scholarship of the government is the first major financial source for them.
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