Mushtaq Ahmed Azmi, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Mushtaq Ahmed Azmi

Indian educationist

Date of Birth: 01-Jun-1919

Date of Death: 12-Jul-2011

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Mushtaq Ahmed Azmi (1 June 1919 – 12 July 2011), was a mass literacy expert.
He was one of the first non-officials to be associated with the development of Adult Education program in India from the early 1950s, and was an early leader of the mass literacy movement.
As an officer of UNESCO, he was posted in Africa and seconded to lead mass literacy programs in Nigeria and Zambia.
He was offered a position in the UNESCO by the British diplomat and head of fundamental education at UNESCO John Bowers. During his sixty-year career, he conducted a number of studies and wrote books and technical documents, which are used by experts and activists in the field of adult education. He developed control, monitoring and evaluation systems for national literacy programs such as Total Literacy Campaigns (TLC) and Post Literacy Programs (PLP), and was an advocate of lifelong learning.