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Chandigarh attained 99.93% literacy rate, frankincense making it a afloat literate Union Territory, said Gulab Chand Katari, the Governor of Punjab and Administrator of Chandigarh. It is the sixth State/U.T. successful the state and the 2nd Union Territory to execute the feat.
To observe this achievement, Chandigarh’s Education Department held a “felicitation of neo-literates”, wherever recently literate individuals were honoured. Mr. Kataria, the main impermanent astatine the event, described the accomplishment arsenic a historical infinitesimal for Chandigarh. He said the occurrence achieved nether the Understanding Lifelong Learning for All successful Society (ULLAS) has helped the metropolis surpass the 95% literacy benchmark acceptable nether the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
Mr. Kataria said Chandigarh’s literacy complaint has accrued from 93.7% to 99.93%, with 15,556 citizens participating successful the programme and 14,711 successfully clearing the literacy assessment. The Governor besides highlighted the singular leap successful women’s literacy from 90.7% to 99.89%, calling it a important measurement towards women’s empowerment.
Emphasising that literacy is the opening of lifelong learning, helium said acquisition volition play a important relation successful achieving the imaginativeness of “Viksit Bharat 2047.” He encouraged citizens to proceed learning and lend to gathering a knowledge-driven and progressive society.
The Governor credited the accomplishment to the corporate efforts of the Chandigarh administration, Education Department, teachers, volunteers, NGOs and societal organisations who worked tirelessly to scope non-literate citizens.
