Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you all for your presentations.
To begin with the subject of literacy, having spent six years in politics and 18 years teaching in a university I obviously appreciate the importance of education. When you add to that the China-India global competition and that we can't compete on low wages, we have no alternative but to compete with our brain power. When you put in, as well, your figure of 42% illiteracy, which I didn't know was so high—putting all of that together, it's obvious to me that it's not only socially mean-spirited but economically super-foolish to cut literacy at this time.
So I guess I have a double-barrelled question to you, and you could answer one or both, as you see fit. It seems so obvious. Do you have any explanation as to why the government would do this? Second, can you tell us in human terms what the implications of these cuts are in any of these provinces you've described?