MP's Mandla becomes country's first fully 'functionally literate' district

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Category : State Published on: August 18 2022

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Madhya Pradesh's tribal-dominated Mandla region has become the first fully "functionally literate" district in the country.
A person can be called functionally literate when he or she is able to write his or her own name, to count and read and write in Hindi.
Mandla district initiated a campaign, ‘Niraksharta Se Azadi Abhiyaan’ from Independence Day in 2020.

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MP's Mandla becomes country's first fully 'functionally literate' district