{"id":264494,"date":"2023-10-14T14:32:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T14:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=264494"},"modified":"2023-10-14T14:32:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T14:32:20","slug":"remembering-karthyayani-amma-the-poster-girl-of-keralas-adult-literacy-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/remembering-karthyayani-amma-the-poster-girl-of-keralas-adult-literacy-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Karthyayani Amma: The poster girl of Kerala\u2019s adult literacy drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>This post has been created based on the article<strong> \u201cRemembering Karthyayani Amma: The poster girl of Kerala\u2019s adult literacy drive\u201d<\/strong> published in<strong> The Indian Express<\/strong> on<strong> 14<sup>th<\/sup> October 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 2 Social Justice \u2013 Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Education, Human Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>:\u00a0This article discusses the state of female education in India and the inspiring story of Kerala\u2019s Karthyayani Amma, who recently passed away.<\/p>\n<p>In India&#8217;s adult literacy drive, Karthyayani Amma\u2019s success in Kerala (her successful clearing of Class X exams) has continued to motivate individual aspiration and institutional support.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the state of female education in India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Statistics show how, despite a surge in literacy among women in India since Independence, the <strong>\u201cGender Gap\u201d in Education<\/strong> still persists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>According to the 2011 Census:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) Adult literacy rate for women in rural areas is at 50.6% compared to 74.1% for men.<\/p>\n<p>2) Similarly, it is 76.9% for women in urban areas, and 88.3% for men.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, one of the highest improvements in literacy rates has been among rural women, achieved through the implementation of adult literacy programmes. Kerala has been a role model in this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: This post has been created based on the article \u201cRemembering Karthyayani Amma: The poster girl of Kerala\u2019s adult literacy drive\u201d published in The Indian Express on 14th October 2023. UPSC Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 2 Social Justice \u2013 Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Education, Human Resources News:\u00a0This article&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/remembering-karthyayani-amma-the-poster-girl-of-keralas-adult-literacy-drive\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remembering Karthyayani Amma: The poster girl of Kerala\u2019s adult literacy drive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230],"tags":[212,10500,232],"class_list":["post-264494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","tag-social-justice","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":8,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698360906},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}