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At a `Meet-the-Press' programme organised here today by the Thiruvanananthapuram Press Club, he pointed out that only six per cent of students who had enrolled in schools reached the university level, compared to 20 per cent in most other countries. It was the Union Government's commitment to increase this to at least 10 per cent, he added. He said more vocational courses would be introduced in the higher education sector. High investment, mainly to provide better infrastructure, would be required to achieve this, the Minister said. As envisaged in the `Vision- 2020' programme, the potential of youth would be utilized to the maximum to make India a developed nation. There have to be educational institutions that maintain high quality to meet this end, Dr. Kathiria said. He said the country was making considerable progress in the area of total literacy. By the year 2001, 65 per cent of the population had become literate and the literacy rate was steadily increasing.
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