NEW DELHI, APRIL 11: Congress President Sonia Gandhi today said revolution in Information Technology (IT) should be used for removing illiteracy in the remote rural areas of the country as it has been successfully achieved in Madhya Pradesh."With the Information Technology Revolution taking place education will be wider and deeper. What needs to be done is that the new technology be put to use for educating people in the remotest rural areas of the country", Gandhi said while launching a website of the Madhya Pradesh government's Education Guarantee Scheme Schools.Commending efforts of the Madhya Pradesh government in removing illiteracy in remote rural areas of the state through its specailly launched "Education Gurantee Scheme Schools", Gandhi said the goal of providing primary education to all will be accomplished only through continued endeavour of the people. She also demanded that a total six per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) be used for Education to remove illiteracy in the country."No children can have a better life without education..by not making all children assessible to education we are denying them their basic rights", she said regretting a large number of school children dropping out at initial stages.She expressed hope that this website will attract more people and help eradicate illiteracy in other parts of the country. Gandhi said more than 38 per cent people were still illiterate in the country despite the fact that their was a pledge 50 years ago to remove it within ten years.Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh, the author of the New Education Scheme, said there were 26,000 schools running in the state under the scheme and had contributed significantly in removing illiteracy in the remore rural areas of the state.He also announced launching of "Health for all scheme" shortly for the benefit of those who have been deprived of basic minimum health services. Singh said he was trying to fulfil the unfinished agenda of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi who wanted empowerment of the people through decentralised system of governance through Panchayati Raj, education and health for all.AICC General Secretaries Moti Lal Vora, Mohsina Kidwai, spokesperson Ajit Jogi, MPCC President Radhakrishna Malviya, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit and several ministers from Madhya Pradesh were present on the occasion.
