Arbind Kumar Singjh’s investigation into the workings of the National Adult Education Programme (NAEP) is a timely warning that the best intentioned ideas run the risk of being distorted by the bureaucracy which is expected to support them. The problem of illiteracy in India and its close interrelationship with poverty is perhaps the greatest problem the country faces today. A Micro Analysis of Adult Education in India takes Bhagalpur District as a ...