Assistance Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India. E-mail id: kirankathuriaa@gmail.com
Online published on 19 October, 2016.
Illiteracy is a curse, and it is one of the major obstacles in living meaningfully and in achieving overall development. The evils of illiteracy need not be overemphasised. It is a great barrier to knowledgeand consequently to quality of human life. Illiteracy and poverty often move together. Nothing threatens our society more than poverty and nothing contributes to poverty more than illiteracy. India's literacy rate (as per Census 2011) is 74.04 per cent in which 82.14 per cent are males and 65.46 per cent are females. The graph of progress could have been escalated if we had a more literate population.
Public libraries, Adult education, Neo literates, Literacy, Illiteracy
