Illiteracy and Poverty paragraph

Illiteracy

Illiteracy means the state of being unable to read and write. It is a curse to any society because illiterate people cannot differentiate between right and wrong and so they cannot contribute to the development and the welfare of the community. People being educated can go ahead to the right path and can lead a country to progress and prosperity. To give emphasis on literacy, the Prophet Mohammad (SM) equated one literate non-believer with ten illiterate believers. As education makes a man enlightened, illiterate people are deprived of the light of education. So, most often illiterate people cannot rectify themselves, cannot change their mentality and obsolete harmful habits, cannot adapt with the new and modern thoughts, cannot accept the positive social changes, cannot think all equal, cannot develop the sense of universal brotherhood and so on. That‘s why illiteracy is often called a curse. It is a great impediment to the process of social development. It baffles all development efforts. It gives rise to poverty, unemployment problem, population problem, health and sanitation problem etc. It is compared to darkness. So, an illiterate man is always in the dark and is considered a burden to the society. On the contrary, an educated man is often enlightened and is considered a great asset to the country. He can do many things for the welfare of the country. And for these reasons, illiteracy should be annihilated. It is the responsibility of the literate people to make the illiterate literate and remove the darkness of ignorance from the country. We know that the concerted efforts of the literate and illiterate people can make a country developed. To remove illiteracy, the govt. must budget for the campaign of eradicating illiteracy. Night schools and mass literacy centers should be established at every village. Mass media like radio, television, and newspaper can take some initiatives and effective programmes to educate the illiterate. In this way, if we can eradicate illiteracy from our society, we will be able to make ours a prosperous country.

Poverty

Poverty means the state in which man cannot meet up the fundamental needs of life. There are many

causes of poverty. Illiteracy is the main cause of remaining poor. Superstition, early-marriage, overpopulation, scarcity of work, unemployment, unconsciousness etc. are also responsible for poverty. Poverty creates a lot of problems. It is also the root cause of many misdeeds. Poverty-affected people cannot lead a decent life. They go without better clothes, shelter, medical care and education. At times some of them are compelled to beg from door to door and from man to man. Begging is not a job and it is very disgraceful in the society. But some poor people instead of begging to go on stealing, robbing, snatching, and hijacking. They are treated as miscreants and terrorists. All these are the outcome of poverty. So, poverty alleviation is a must for establishing peace in a state. In our country most of the people are poor. They live below poverty line. They earn a little to keep body and soul together. Again many of them are involved in some unethical and heinous activities. These should not be allowed to continue. If we want to stop all unethical activities and corruption, at first we have to eradicate poverty from our society. But how can we wipe out poverty? The first step that we can take up is the diversification of the economy. As ours is an agro-based economy, it is imperative to diversify our agricultural output. Besides, we have to go for non-agricultural diversification. In order to do so, we can move into labor-intensive industries, as labor is very cheap in our country. Population control is a must and various positive incentives may be offered for small planned families. Illiteracy ought to be eradicated. After all, micro-credit should be provided among the poor on easy terms so that they can change their lots. These few steps will surely help in reducing poverty that has plagued us for decades. According to Dr. Yunus, a Nobel laureate for peace rightly said, ―If micro-credit were offered to all the poor people, poverty of all kinds would be sent to the museum.‖