Hence, in order to ensure effective literacy skills acquisition by learners, the KGALP provides participants with free and adequate learning materials, basic stationery and obligates them to attend classes three times a week (on average, each class is three hours long) over a period of six months.

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At the elite Indian engineering colleges students must attend 42 hours of lectures and lab classes each week, twice as much time as the typical MIT undergraduate spends in class.

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