(d)  Investment in education and human development in countries other than Sri Lanka has been inadequate in volume, deficient in quality and lacking in relevance. The most recent census data for 2001 shows that India’s literacy rate has gone up to 64 percent but female literacy rate is less than 50 percent.
It also demonstrates that at least one third of its population and labor force is not fully equipped to take up the ever changing and more complex tasks of the economy trying to outclass other competing countries. In Pakistan and Bangladesh almost  BIS Review 50/2004  3  half of their population and two-third of female population are illiterate.