Education helps to increase people's awareness of opportunities and scope for advancement. It also empowers them with the ability to seize them. Self-help is easier for an educated person than one who is not educated.

Education empowers an individual not just with the knowledge of his/her rights but also the capacity to keep learning.

Education has become even more important because we live in a knowledge-based society driven by information technology. An educated population can easily catch up and exploit the potential of the emerging opportunities for progress and economic advancement in the globalised environment.