YANGON, April 7 (Bernama) -- Myanmar is launching a literacy campaign in 29 townships across the country to develop the education sector, China's Xinhua news agency reported quoting state media.
A total of 4,261 students and 403 faculty members will teach 46,479 learners from all 29 townships for one-and-a-half months beginning the first week of April.
President U Thein Sein, who attended one of the campaigns' launching ceremony in Singaing township in northern Mandalay on Sunday, said the campaign would play a key role in rural development and poverty alleviation.
In 2013's literacy campaign, 1,985 students from 10 universities participated in teaching 22,417 learners in nine townships across the country.
Myanmar's official illiteracy eradication movement was first launched in 1964 to boost literacy programmes.
The government formed a literacy supervisory central committee in 1966.
Myanmar's efforts to boost literacy earned it the Mohammad Riza Pahlavi Prize in 1971 and the Noma Prize in 1983.
-- BERNAMA
http://www.information.myanmaronlinecentre.com/myanmar-launches-nationwide-literacy-campaign/
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