<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> saaksharbharat.nic.in </Td> </Tr> <P> Saakshar Bharat is a government of India initiative launched by Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh to create a literate society through a variety of teaching learning programmes for non-literate and neo-literate of 15 years and above . It was launched on 8 September 2009 as a centrally sponsored scheme . </P> <P> It aims to recast India's National Literacy Mission to focus on literacy of women, which is expected to increase the literate population by 70 million adults, including 60 million women . </P> <P> It is a scheme from Department of School Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India . The National Literacy Mission covered 597 districts under Total Literacy Campaign, 485 districts under Post Literacy Programme and 328 districts under Continuing Education Programme . As per 2001 census, over 127 million adults have been made literate of which 60% were women, 23% were SC and 12% were ST . </P>

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