{"license":"Free to use with attribution to Vaada Meter (license terms to be finalised)","methodVersion":"1.0","generatedAt":"2026-10-06T07:29:06.468Z","data":{"id":"inc-ls-1991-015","text":"Implement the New Education Policy vigorously to wipe out illiteracy","quote":"The Congress will vigorously implement the New Education Policy --to wipe out illiteracy and significantly expand investment in primary and secondary education.","quoteIsExact":false,"quoteLanguage":"en","quoteEnglish":null,"page":null,"sector":"education","measurability":"directional","importance":"major","deadline":"1996-05-16","deadlineType":"implied","status":"partial","rating":5,"ratingRule":"partial_yesno","provisional":false,"confidence":"medium","reason":"Under the National Literacy Mission 49.89 million people had been made literate against an enrolment of 78 million. Illiteracy was not wiped out by 1996.","evidence":[{"date":"2004-08-25","sourceType":"manifesto","publisher":"All India Congress Committee (Wayback copy)","title":"Salient Points of Previous Manifestos (1991 and 1996 extracts)","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20040825152122/http://www.aicc.org.in:80/manifesto-1996.htm","quote":"The Congress will vigorously implement the New Education Policy --to wipe out illiteracy and significantly expand investment in primary and secondary education.","stance":"context"},{"date":null,"sourceType":"statistics","publisher":"Ministry of Finance","title":"Economic Survey 1995-96, ch. 10 Social Sectors","url":"https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/budget_archive/es1995-96/10%20Social%20sectors.pdf","quote":"Under all schemes of NLM, 49.89 million persons have so far been made literate as per NLM norms against an enrolment of 78 million.","stance":"supports"}],"tags":["literacy"],"sensitive":false,"memeLine":null,"review":{"state":"ai_draft","draftedBy":"research-agent","draftedAt":"2026-10-05","reviewedBy":null,"approvedBy":null},"manifestoId":"inc-ls-1991","partyId":"inc","electionId":"ls-1991"}}