If a person is able to write and sign his name, it is construed that he is a literate and his head is counted under the literacy programmes as well.
He may even not knowing to read and write in his mother tongue other than scribing his name and signature.
Communists and other political parties train the people well to write their names and scribe signatures.
It is done for the purpose of easily obtaining the loans from Banks under the Government sponsored schemes.
I am telling this with my past experience as a Manager of a rural centre in an area that overlaps Kerala.
He may even not knowing to read and write in his mother tongue other than scribing his name and signature.
Communists and other political parties train the people well to write their names and scribe signatures.
It is done for the purpose of easily obtaining the loans from Banks under the Government sponsored schemes.
I am telling this with my past experience as a Manager of a rural centre in an area that overlaps Kerala.