59 relations: Agartala, Andhra Pradesh, Asha for Education, Bangladesh, Bihar, British Raj, Chhattisgarh, Child marriage, China, Debt bondage, Directive Principles, Education in India, Ekal Vidyalaya, Ernakulam, Family planning in India, Fundamental rights in India, Government of Kerala, Gurukula, Himalayas, Hindi, Hindustan Times, India, Indian independence movement, Jharkhand, Kerala, Kerala model, Keshub Chandra Sen, Lions Clubs International, List of countries by literacy rate, List of Indian states and union territories by literacy rate, Literacy, M. G. Ramachandran, Madhya Pradesh, Mamidipudi Venkatarangayya, Mizoram, Music of Bollywood, Myanmar, National Literacy Mission Programme, Nepal, Pakistan, Parliament of India, PlanetRead, Post literacy, Pratham, Rajasthan, Right to education, Rotary International, Sargent Scheme, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Sri Lanka, ..., Subtitle (captioning), Supreme Court of India, The Imperial Gazetteer of India, Tripura, UNESCO, UNICEF, University of Hyderabad, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Expand index (9 more) »
Agartala
Agartala 'আগরতলা (Bengali)' is the capital of the Indian state of Tripura as well as the second largest city in North-east India after Guwahati, both in municipal area and population.
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Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh is one of the 29 states of India.
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Asha for Education
Asha for Education ("Asha") is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in the United States."Asha" means "hope" in Sanskrit.
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ, lit. "The country of Bengal"), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh (গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ), is a country in South Asia.
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Bihar
Bihar is an Indian state considered to be a part of Eastern as well as Northern India.
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British Raj
The British Raj (from rāj, literally, "rule" in Hindustani) was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947.
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Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh (translation: Thirty-Six Forts) is one of the 29 states of India, located in the centre-east of the country.
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Child marriage
Child marriage is a formal marriage or informal union entered into by an individual before reaching a certain age, specified by several global organizations such as UNICEF as minors under the age of 18.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Debt bondage
Debt bondage, also known as debt slavery or bonded labour, is a person's pledge of labour or services as security for the repayment for a debt or other obligation, where there is no hope of actually repaying the debt.
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Directive Principles
The Directive Principles of State Policy (DPSP) are the guidelines or principles given to the federal institutes governing the state of India, to be kept in citation while framing laws and policies.
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Education in India
Education in India is provided by the public sector as well as the private sector, with control and funding coming from three levels: central, state and local.
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Ekal Vidyalaya
The Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation (literally Foundation of Solo Schools) is a non-profit organization involved in education and village development in rural areas and tribal villages of India.
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Ernakulam
Ernakulam refers to the eastern, mainland portion of the city of Kochi in central Kerala, India.
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Family planning in India
Family planning in India is based on efforts largely sponsored by the Indian government.
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Fundamental rights in India
Fundamental Rights are the basic rights of the common people and inalienable rights of the people who enjoy it under the charter of rights contained in Part III(Article 12 to 35) of Constitution of India.
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Government of Kerala
The Government of Kerala headquartered at Thiruvananthapuram is a democratically elected body that governs the Indian State of Kerala.
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Gurukula
Gurukula (gurukula) was a type of residential schooling system in ancient India with shishya (students) living near or with the guru, in the same house.
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Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya, form a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.
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Hindi
Hindi (Devanagari: हिन्दी, IAST: Hindī), or Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: मानक हिन्दी, IAST: Mānak Hindī) is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language.
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Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded in 1924 with roots in the Indian independence movement of the period ("Hindustan" being a historical name for India).
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Indian independence movement
The Indian independence movement encompassed activities and ideas aiming to end the East India Company rule (1757–1857) and the British Indian Empire (1857–1947) in the Indian subcontinent.
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Jharkhand
Jharkhand (lit. "Bushland" or The land of forest) is a state in eastern India, carved out of the southern part of Bihar on 15 November 2000.
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Kerala
Kerala is a state in South India on the Malabar Coast.
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Kerala model
The Kerala model of development, is the style of development that has been practised in the southern Indian state of Kerala.
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Keshub Chandra Sen
Keshab Chandra Sen (কেশবচন্দ্র সেন, Keshob Chôndro Shen; also spelled, Keshub Chunder Sen) (19 November 1838 – 8 January 1884) was an Indian Bengali philosopher and social reformer.
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Lions Clubs International
Lions Clubs International (LCI) is an international secular, non-political service organization established originally in 1916 in chicago, Illinois by Melvin Jones.
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List of countries by literacy rate
This is a list of countries by literacy rate.
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List of Indian states and union territories by literacy rate
Literacy rate in India is uneven and as such, different States and Union Territories of India have differences in their literacy rates.
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Literacy
Literacy is traditionally meant as the ability to read and write.
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M. G. Ramachandran
Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran (17 January 1917 – 24 December 1987), popularly known as M.G.R., was an Indian actor, filmmaker and politician who served as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for ten years between 1977 and 1987.
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Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh (MP;; meaning Central Province) is a state in central India.
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Mamidipudi Venkatarangayya
Mamidipudi Venkatarangayya (8 January 1889 – 13 January 1982) was a multidisciplined person and financial and political scientist and historical writer of Andhra Pradesh, India.
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Mizoram
Mizoram is a state in Northeast India, with Aizawl as its capital city.
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Music of Bollywood
Bollywood songs, more formally known as Hindi film songs, or filmi songs are songs featured in Bollywood films.
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Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.
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National Literacy Mission Programme
The National Literacy Mission (NLM) is a nationwide program started by Government of India in 1988.
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Nepal
Nepal (नेपाल), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल), is a landlocked country in South Asia located mainly in the Himalayas but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.
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Pakistan
Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.
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Parliament of India
The Parliament of India is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India.
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PlanetRead
PlanetRead is a non-profit founded by Ashoka Fellow, Brij Kothari, to provide Same Language Subtitling on Bollywood music videos in the same language that they are sung in to promote functional literacy.
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Post literacy
Post literacy or post literacy education is a concept used in continuing education and adult education programs aimed at recently illiterate or "neo-literate" adults and communities, largely in the developing world.
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Pratham
Pratham is one of the largest non-governmental organisations in India.
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Rajasthan
Rajasthan (literally, "Land of Kings") is India's largest state by area (or 10.4% of India's total area).
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Right to education
The right to education has been recognized as a human right in a number of international conventions, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which recognizes a right to free, compulsory primary education for all, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all, in particular by the progressive introduction of free secondary education, as well as an obligation to develop equitable access to higher education, ideally by the progressive introduction of free higher education.
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Rotary International
Rotary International is an international service organization whose stated purpose is to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and to advance goodwill and peace around the world.
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Sargent Scheme
The Sargent Scheme, formally known as the Report of the Sargent Commission on Post-War Education Development in India, was a 1944 memorandum prepared at the behest of the British-run Government of India that outlined the future development of literacy and education in India.
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Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (Hindi: सर्व शिक्षा अभियान, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyān, English: Education for All Movement), or SSA, is an Indian Government programme aimed at the universalisation of elementary education "in a time bound manner", as mandated by the 86th Amendment to the Constitution of India making free and compulsory education to children between the ages of 6 to 14 (estimated to be 205 million children in 2001) a fundamental right.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.
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Subtitle (captioning)
Subtitles are text derived from either a transcript or screenplay of the dialog or commentary in films, television programs, video games, and the like, usually displayed at the bottom of the screen, but can also be at the top of the screen if there is already text at the bottom of the screen.
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Supreme Court of India
The Supreme Court of India is the highest judicial forum and final court of appeal under the Constitution of India, the highest constitutional court, with the power of constitutional review.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of India
The Imperial Gazetteer of India was a gazetteer of the British Indian Empire, and is now a historical reference work.
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Tripura
Tripura 'ত্রিপুরা (Bengali)' is a state in Northeast India.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.
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UNICEF
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is a United Nations (UN) program headquartered in New York City that provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries.
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University of Hyderabad
The University of Hyderabad (IAST: Haidarābād visvavidyālayamu) is an Indian Public Research University located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
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Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh (IAST: Uttar Pradeś) is a state in northern India.
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West Bengal
West Bengal (Paśchimbāṅga) is an Indian state, located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_India