Literacy Rate in India - To know development
in a society, Literacy is another proper indicator of economic
development. For purpose of census, a person in age limit of seven and
above, who can both write and read with understanding in any of the
language is considered as a literate in India.
As per Population Census of India 2011, the
Literacy rate of India
has shown as improvement of almost 9 percent. It has gone up to 74.04%
in 2011 from 65.38% in 2001, thus showing an increase of 9 percent in
the last 10 years. It consists of male literacy rate 82.14% and female
literacy rate is 65.46%. Kerala with 93.9% literacy rate is the top
state in India. Lakshadweep and Mizoram are at second and third position
with 92.3% and 91.06% literacy rate respectively. Bihar with 63.08%
literacy rate is the last in terms of literacy rate in India.
Government of India has taken several measures to improve the literacy
rate in villages and towns of India. State Governments has been directed
to ensure and improve literacy rate in districts and villages
where
people are very poor. There has been a good improvement in literacy rate
of India in last 10 years but there is still a long way to go.
List of Steps taken by Government of India to improve Literacy Rate
in India:
