Statements (1), (2) and (4) are correct regarding ‘Saakshar Bharat’ scheme. Saakshar Bharat Mission was launched in September 2009 by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for Female Literacy on International Literacy Day (September 8) in New Delhi. This is a centrally sponsored scheme, under the aegis of Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. It aims at imparting functional literacy to non-literates in the age group of 15-35 years in a time-bound manner (rendering statement (3) incorrect). Thus, option (C) is the correct answer.