Boon of Saakshar Bharat Mission-2012 in Tamenglong District, Manipur.

The launching of Saakshar Bharat Mission on 8th September, 2009 a centrally sponsored scheme of Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India was to further accentuate Adult Education especially illiterate women as the new variant of National Literacy Mission covering all adult women in the age group 15 and beyond. The present study analysed the boon of Saakshar Bharat Mission – 2012 in Tamenglong District. There were 11,579 illiterate women in the district who were enrolled as learners. They were taught by 1,147 Volunteer Teachers (VTs) who were supervised by the 112 Preraks in 56 Adult Education Centres (AECs). The programme was carried out in the specified period from 15th January 2010 – 31st March, 2012(Phase-I). The First Learners‟ Assessment was placed under the pilot study. The 2nd. & 3rd.Learners‟ Assessment revealed learners appearing 1,290 and 2,869 attaining 81.08% and 79.78% respectively. For the Final Assessment there were 8462 female learners from basic literacy and 3214 female learners from neo-literates and school drop-out. Altogether 11,676 took the exam for the final assessment. There were 2186 learners declared under Grade-A; while 2891 were placed under Grade-B making A+B = 59.99 % and as many as 3385 were placed at Grade-C from among the Basic Learners. From among the neo-literates and school drop-out 839 learners got Grade-A, 1064 got Grade-B; Grades A+B= 59.20% and 1311 were placed for improvement. Women Census literacy trends in Tamenglong district i.e. 39.68% (1991), 49.11% (2001) & 63.76% (2011) and last decadal growth of 14.65%, have been considered to be a positive indicator of Saakshar Bharat Mission-2012 in Tamenglong District, Manipur.