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How rural India gained 86 mn illiterate people
How rural India gained 86 mn illiterate people. About 86 million more rural Indians have been counted as illiterate than the 2011 census data found. This is revealed by the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC), which counted 315.7 million Indians in rural areas as illiterate in 2011, the same year as the census and the highest number of illiterates of any country in the world.
About 86 million more rural Indians have been counted as illiterate than the 2011 census data found. This is revealed by the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC), which counted 315.7 million Indians in rural areas as illiterate in 2011, the same year as the census and the highest number of illiterates of any country in the world.
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Put another way, rural India has more illiterate people than the population of Indonesia – the world’s fourth-most populous country – and twice the population of Pakistan. Released last week, the SECC, which focused on rural India, counted more people (literate and illiterate) than the census: 35.73 percent of Indians in rural areas as illiterate, as against 32.23 percent counted by Census 2011. The new data has also revealed the low levels of literacy in rural India.
Those who are literate can barely read or count. As many as 14 percent (123 million people) of literate Indians in rural areas have not studied past class five, while 18 percent (157 million) have completed primary education, or class five.
Given that educational levels in India do not reflect real learning, 280 million literate Indians in rural areas are only nominally literate. The surprises are the presence of the southern states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh in the top 10 states for illiteracy. Kerala is another surprise in the SECC analysis. (IndiaSpend.org)
