He emphasized that constitutional right to education ought to be enforced to block further addition of illiterate youth and adults in the existing lot of illiterate population.
But the result of losing manufacturing is surely a relatively non-numerate and scientifically illiterate population, which at a time of huge technological progress strikes me as something of a disadvantage.
For instance, recent studies by the University of the West Indies (UWI, 1995), Griffith (2002) and Pacheco (2004) revealed that over 20% of the adult population (aged 15 and above) are illiterate and about 40% of the youth population (aged 15 to 24 years) are functionally illiterate.
Women and girls make up nearly two thirds of the illiterate adult and youth population.
India has a lot of unutilised human capital, since over 30% of the adult population is illiterate.
In addition, 12.1 % of the total adult population is illiterate.
The market included Brazil's millions who did not buy newspapers (around 12% of the population is still illiterate).
"Our population is highly illiterate and so having two churches using a single generic name can cause confusion, " says a statement from the Office of the Registrar General.
But the 22% of the UK population evaluated as illiterate - a figure described by Dr Jolly as "a real shocker" - means that any advances in education are overshadowed by this persistent weakness.
BBC: News | Education | Illiteracy rate detracts from education progress
He said that literacy rate in rural Sindh is alarmingly low and that more than half or 58% rural population of Sindh is illiterate.
Overall, one third of the indigenous population is considered to be functionally illiterate.
Among Egypt's population of 80 million, some 32 million are illiterate.
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