RE: [MTC Global] Fw: [Arkitect India] How Tripura became India's top literate state

We are talking of only last 25 years and not before that. We know about the Golden Age of West Bengal and I feel that MTC members have their facts and nobody need to preach them.

Regards

Virendra Goel

From: join_mtc@googlegroups.com [mailto:join_mtc@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Indranil Bose
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 7:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [MTC Global] Fw: [Arkitect India] How Tripura became India's top literate state

Dear all,

It is really surprising to see that all of you are really passionate about bad naming a state called Bengal. I think, it is nothing but lack of knowledge about the other state apart from the state you are actually from. Somebody has said that the attitude of the people is another reason for so called lack of development in Bengal. The definition of development cannot be related to big factories only, not only about the numbers of shopping malls only. May be in many fronts, Bengal needs development, but its achievement in many other fronts are really enviable. Calcutta has always been the centre of excellence in education.I am not talking about management and engineering colleges only. If you go through the history, you will find that all the Nobel Laureates have their connections to Calcutta. Lets start with Ronald Ross, who was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine for inventing the drugs for black fever was a researcher and doctor at P.G.Hospital at Kolkata. Then came Rabindranath Tagore.CV Raman came to Calcutta to study and teach Physics at Presidency College, Kolkata and was awarded Nobel Prize, of which almost 80% work was carried out Presidency College, Calcutta and The Institute of Applied Physics in Kolkata. Mother Teresa got Nobel Prize for her work in Kolkata and the work she did across the globe by Missionaries of Charity.Very recently, Amartya Sen, the Nobel laureate in Economics is an alumni of Presidency College, Calcutta and before leaving for Cambridge, he tought at Presidency College , Jadavpur University for about 8 years. India's proud sons like Rajendra Prasad and Dr. Radhakrishnan were the students of Calcutta University. Tata's pioneering work of Indian Institute of Science was conceptualised after Jamshedji Tata met Swami Vivekananda at Calcutta and while travelling by ship to England. IIM Calcutta , Indian Statistical Institute Calcutta, IIT Kharagpur are all the examples of first IIM, IIT and ISI in India. Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management was established as the first B-School in India in the year 1954 under the initiative of DR. Bidhan Chandra Roy. All these institutions are still pioneers in their fields. I really surprise that so called self proclaimed learned peoples have very little knowledge about the other states and keep on spreading negative words about others. I think, MTC Global should immediately take some initiatives about improving G.K.of its members.

Keep on talking bad words from mere foolishness guys.

Indranil Bose

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Satish Oberoi <oberoi50@yahoo.com> wrote:

Factors which facilitate education are leadership, people's desire to learn, improved economy,set need based standards of education.etc.

Kerala has achieved little as far as intrinsic economic development. Kerala work force abroad ensured that adequate money was remitted which helped in development of education.

Bengal has tremendous potential but it never was allowed to develop due to quality of leadership, attitude of the people and limited source of revenue.

Tripura being a small state leadership played significant role. Target seems to have been set to increase literacy by reducing standards. . It is debatable if it will help the people to generate wealth.

Regards,

Satish

On Monday, 21 October 2013, 11:27, Virendra Goel <goel.virendra@gmail.com> wrote:

I beg to differ. There was a communist government in West Bengal for 25 years and I believe there was hardly any development worth mentioning in Agriculture, Industry or Service sector or even education.

Regards

Virendra Goel

From: join_mtc@googlegroups.com [mailto:join_mtc@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Indranil Bose
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 12:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [MTC Global] Fw: [Arkitect India] How Tripura became India's top literate state

Its a great achievement indeed.

One similarity between Kerala and Tripura deserves attention.Both of the states have the legacy of the left rule for long periods of time. Left may not run after the industrialists, but always focus on development of human capital in terms of education, health etc. The model of China is worth mentioning here and which was followed by the left rule in West Bengal. In all these cases, human development was initiated to minimise communal divide, caste division, spreading education and literacy and once, the social development reaches a formidable state, the governments started to attract investors. I hope, Tripura will also do the same within few years. We can criticise, left rule for any reason, but we should be honest in acknowledging the positive spirit, it encompasses for social development.

Congratulation to Tripura and other states, who have done something real positive for social development.

Best wishes,

Indranil Bose

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Satish Oberoi <oberoi50@yahoo.com> wrote:

It will be interesting to ascertain reasons for high literacy in Tripura. Good governance and good leadership can be two reasons. Other reasons which could have contributed are:

(a) No examinations till VIII class.

(b) It is easier to achieve targets with smaller states.

Regards,

Satish

On Sunday, 20 October 2013, 9:07, Sukla Sen <> wrote:

http://www.governancenow.com/news/blogs/how-tripura-became-indias-top-literate-state

How Tripura became India's top literate state

Tripura's feat of becoming the highest literacy state in India is a result of its emphasis on the social sector, including education, than blindly running after GDP growth

SHIVANGI NARAYAN | SEPTEMBER 09 2013

On September 8, Tripura’s unassuming chief minister Manik Sarkar announced that the tiny northeast Indian state is India’s most literate state. At 94.65 percent (based on final assessments by all districts), literacy rate of the state surged past 93.91-percent literate Kerala.

“Our goal is to 100 percent literacy (and) we would attain that very soon,” Sarkar said at a function held to mark the International Literacy Day.

So what was it that worked for a state that was 12th in the literacy list of 2001 census and fourth in 2011, as Sarkar mentioned? The state’s focus on the social sector, to believe its ministers and officials.

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As the millennium turned, and most states joined the ‘development’ or have the high Gross Domestic Product (GDP) race, Tripura silently went on to ensure every child in the state goes to school. The programme did not stop at the children; it ensured that people who were left out of the fold of formal education, and were too old to join it again, would be provided education to improve quality of their lives.

The programmes were not just implemented to make the state literate but as long-term education programmes to ensure all citizens have a certain basic minimum level of education, Tripura’s higher education, food and information and cultural affairs minister Bhanu Lal Saha said. Education, as Saha stressed, is a necessary tool to empower people, as “only an educated society can produce a good civil society”.

Tripura has 45 blocks and 23 subdivisions that are served by 68 government-run schools and 30-40 privat schools.

Among projects implemented by the state government to increase literacy in the state are:

* Total literacy drive for people aged between 15 and 50 who have lost the chance of entering formal education fold. A special programme – titled improved pace and content learning (IPCL) – has been designed to provide basic education to such people.

* 10,000 aaganwadi centres have 100 percent enrolment.

* Policy of no examination till class VIII to children people from dropping out.

* Midday meals in all schools with an eclectic menu for all days of the week to attract more students.

* No tuition fee in government colleges.

The holistic education system, implemented with equal interest in Agartala, remote areas and the tribal autonomic areas, makes sure that people in Tripura do not just become literate but educated, officials emphasised. One pointer to the government's interest in education is the near-total absence of child labour in Tripura.

Education also serves the larger purpose of improving the status of society. The plan for 100 percent literacy is just the byproduct of this larger vision that Tripura government has for the state, according to officials.

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