Literacy should be a catalyst for social development, State Police Chief Loknath Behera has said.
He was delivering the literacy message in connection with the World Literacy Day celebrations at the Kerala State Literacy Mission Authority office here on Friday.
Mr. Behera said literacy programmes launched by the mission for migrant workers and for continuing education of transgenders were aimed at social progress. Such programmes, a first in the country, were a model for other States, he said.
Lack of drinking water will be the gravest problem that the State will face in the coming years. Against this backdrop, the water literacy programme launched by the mission was timely. The country was eagerly looking at the mission’s efforts to attain complete literacy, the State Police Chief said. He called for intensifying literacy activities in jails under the aegis of the mission.