Education and human resource development will play a key role in the 21th century. Adult education is an indispensable component of the strategy of human resource development and goal of creating a learning society. Achievement of basic literacy is not an end in itself. It is the entry point to the world of information technology.

The aim of adult education programme is to consolidate the basic literacy skills of reading, writing, numeric, and problem solving, while at the same time transforming the learners into an educated community, able to participate actively and productively in the nations process of development. In any society, there is direct relationship or link between education and human development.