This is a fact from a report released. India has the third largest illiteracy in the work and it wants to be a Knowledge Powerhouse. Illiteracy on rise in India. Why dont Indians in West help their country in reducing illiteracy?
Even those who are literate can hardly get a job.
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About 4.6 million children in India do not go to school, which is the third largest quantity of such children in a country, the Education for All (EFA) global monitoring report 2007 has pointed out.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNICEF) released the report on Thursday.
The report places Nigeria at number one with 8.11 million out-of-school children.
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