Tag: diversity and discrimination

In French, raison d'etre literally means "reason for being," and in English it means about the same. Someone's raison d'etre is the most important thing to them. For example: Android’s whole raison d’être is to be the more open alternative to Apple.

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) or Majority People's Party is one of the only five prominent national political parties of India. The ideology of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is "Social Transformation and Economic Emancipation" of the Bahujan Samaj, which comprises of the Scheduled Castes (SCs), the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and Religious Minorities such as Sikhs, Muslims, Christians, Parsis and Buddhists and account for over 85 percent of the country's total population.

BAMCEF (Backward and Minorities Community Employees Federation) is an organisation largely made up of government employees that campaigns against caste discrimination. It addresses the problems of its members who suffer discrimination. But its principal concern is with social justice and social equality for the entire society. 

Gandhiji used to say that religion can never be separated from politics. He said that he didn't mean religion as any particular religion like Hinduism or Islam but moral values that inform all religion is actually a real religion. He believed that politics must be guided by ethics drawn from religion.

Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act or Right to Education Act (RTE) was enacted on 4th August 2009 by the parliament of India. This was inserted in Article 21-A of the constitution. Children in the age group of six to fourteen were given rights to full time elementary education of satisfactory and equitable quality in a formal school. Article 21-A and the RTE Act came into effect on 1st April 2010.   

Adult education is a practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained self–educating activities in order to gain new forms of knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values. Purposes of adult education may vary, the general purposes of which are summarized as: 

1. Vocational
2. Remove illiteracy
3. Social
4. Recreational
5. Self-development

On 26th October, 1966 UNESCO declared 8th September as International Literacy Day. It was celebrated for the first time in 1967. Its main aim is to promote and highlight the importance of literacy. 

Though India is a democratic country and has achieved political equality still social and economic inequalities exist here. Some people are very rich and some are so poor that they can't afford two times meal for themselves. As some people are very poor as a result they are unable to give education to their children. This increases the number of illiterate people.