Address the gap between functional and official literacy

As the government aims to raise the country’s literacy rate to between 86 and 90 percent by 2030, nearly half of children aged seven to 14 still fail to read and understand a simple story.

Why is one in four people still illiterate in the country?

It should be a wake-up call for our policymakers

Literacy rate in Bangladesh is now 74.66 percent, according to the preliminary report of “Population and Housing Census 2022”.