Role of Youth in Eradicating Illiteracy 

By Karan 

According to 2011 census, literacy of hundred percent or around has been achieved by only a couple of states in India. Illiteracy is found mostly among the old and the deprived sections of society. 

Youth have a crucial role to play in erasing the evil of illiteracy in society. In summer vacations they can devote a couple of hours to teach the illiterates in localities or villages near their residences. They can educate the illiterates in life skills, proper hygiene, childcare and nutrition. Also they can remove very much the social evils from the minds of illiterates like blind faith in superstitions, religious bigotry, communalism and narrow-mindedness. 

Students can stage street plays that reveal the hollowness of various beliefs of the illiterates. They can teach them about the importance of being illiterate. They can access various schemes of the government for their uplift and growth. Best of all, through literacy, the illiterate can be prevented from being cheated by unscrupulous and crafty people. Youth power can expel illiteracy from our country. They only need to have a strong will and determination to eradicte the menace of illiteracy