Abstract
Five decades have passed since India achieved Independence but illiteracy still persists. Six out of ten people in the country are still illiterate while out of four women illiterate, eight out of ten tribals are illiterate and the same is with the scheduled caste community.
Today many government programmes suffer because people do not get to know them, their access to information is severely limited by their inability to read and write. In turn their response does not get back to the policy makers because of people's ignorance.
The launching of National Literacy Mission, on 5th May 1998 was an attempt to make the literacy movement a community based education. Around 421 Districts have been covered under Total Literacy Campaign (TLC). The
North Eastern Region comprises of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. Though it occupies a strategic location it is isolated from the mainland. North East India is a vast mosaic of culture. It is populated with innumerable ethnic group, with their own ethos, dreams, the music, dances, and its distinct smell of nativity. It is like a salad bowl where different cultural traditions are inhabited. The culture of North East has an internal flow which binds the various strands together.
Every state in the region has its own style of functioning, comprising of the traditional institutes like the village Durbar, the District Councils, and the Panchayat System. Along with these traditional institution many non-governmental organisation, like the church are continuing their contribution towards the development of education in the region. Though with the onset of modernity, the authority exercised by tradition is getting diffused somewhat.
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