Education is fundamental to learning and is a pre-requisite for development. It is also imperative for sustained growth and development of a nation. It is still a long way to go for India in achieving Goal numbers 4 and 5 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals of quality education and gender equality by 2030. Despite several government initiatives and literacy programmes, gender gap in literacy of 17% still persists. A collective effort is required to address these gaps , as women constitute two-thirds of the illiterate population in India. The present study has been conducted to assess the outcome of an adult literacy programme ‘Each One Enable One’ by under-graduate students at a college of University of Delhi, targeted at women from poor socio-economic background residing in the neighbourhood of students. The study was conducted across 11 districts of Delhi, the Capital city of India, using a sample of 150 women. The results have revealed that literacy programme led to statistically significant gains in the overall literacy scores of women in Reading, Writing and Arithmetic and enhanced self-confidence of women. The study has highlighted the positive outcome of Each One Enable One Program and has provided evidence for the need to out-scale such initiatives.

教育是学习的基础，是发展的先决条件。这对于一个国家的持续增长和发展也势在必行。印度要在2030年之前实现联合国可持续发展目标中的质量教育和性别平等目标的目标4和5，还有很长的路要走。尽管政府采取了多项举措和扫盲计划，但识字方面的性别差距仍然存在，仍然存在17％。由于印度占文盲人口的三分之二，因此需要集体努力解决这些差距。本研究的进行是为了评估德里大学一所大学本科生针对成人扫盲计划“每一个使能的人”的成果，该计划针对居住在学生附近的社会经济背景较差的妇女。这项研究是在150个妇女的样本中，在印度首都德里的11个地区进行的。结果表明，识字计划使妇女在阅读，写作和算术方面的总体识字分数得到了统计上的显着提高，并增强了妇女的自信心。这项研究强调了“每一个使能一个计划”的积极成果，并提供了证明有必要扩大此类计划的规模的证据。