Sakshar Bharat Mission programme launched by Uttarakhand government, with the objective to reduce illiteracy especially among the women in the state.The programme which was launched pan –India in 2009 had been delayed in the state owing to some litigations in the court.

The mission sets itself the goal of educating 70 million learners, 60 million of them women, by 2012 through an investment of US $1billion; it replaces the old adult literacy mission that began in 1988. The final goal is to take national literacy levels from 64 per cent currently to 80 per cent by 2017, and reduce the gender gap from 21 per cent at present to 10 per cent, eventually.

“The ‘preraks (motivators)’ have been chosen and deployed in the respective districts. There were some modalities concerned with the bank accounts and they have been completed. The actual work of imparting basic education would begin in the end of July,” State School Education Secretary Manisha Panwar said.