The MoE is encouraging all literate people to be part of the campaign, calling on civil servants, teachers and army personnel to help work towards the target. Around 36,000 centres will be created to teach literacy classes, with the help of 27,000 volunteers.

Nepal’s education minister Dina Nath Sharma said: “The government will leave no stone unturned to bring down illiteracy to zero and will set an example to the world.”

Mr Sharma is so confident in the campaign that he added: “We will award cash prizes to anyone who finds illiterate people [in Nepal] after the year 2015.” However, the MoE has revised the definition of literacy somewhat. A person will be deemed literate if they can operate a mobile phone and a calculator, can count up to 100, express personal views in public and fill in a cheque.

Source:  www.positivenews.org.uk