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According to the Ministry of Education, Bihar has the lowest literacy rate, at 61.8%. It is followed by Arunachal Pradesh (65.3%) and Rajasthan (66.1%). Kerala, on the other hand, continues to have the highest literacy rate in India, at 94%.
Annapurna Devi, the Union Minister of State for Education, went on to share this information in response to a written question in the Lok Sabha. She went on to say that Kerala is followed by Lakshwadeep (91.85%) and Mizoram (91.33%). Overall, rural India has a literacy rate of 67.77%, while urban India has a literacy rate of 84.11%.
Adult Literacy Improvement Measures Taken In India
The Samagra Shiksha Program aims to raise learning levels from preschool to senior secondary school while also ensuring universal access to and retention in education. It also works to end gender and social class gaps. It is a scheme that the federal government is assisting states and union territories in implementing.
Aside from that, a centrally sponsored scheme called Saakshar Bharat was implemented in rural areas of 404 districts in 26 states and one union territory that had a female literacy rate of 50% or lower as of Census 2001.
The programme, according to Devi, aimed to raise the country's general literacy rate to 80% and reduce the gender disparity to 10% by the end of the XII five-year plan. It has been extended until March 31, 2018.
In contrast to the ultimate goal of converting 7.00 crore adult illiterates into literates, the minister claimed that approximately 7.64 crore students who passed the biennial Basic Literacy Assessment Tests of the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) between August 2010 and March 2018 were recognised as literates.
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