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Over 40 %illiteracy in Telangana
The newly-carved Telangana State shares the dubious distinction with BIMARU States like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar with the highest rural illiteracy, according to the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011.Rajasthan leads the pack of illiterate states with 47.58 per cent of its population falling in that category, followed by Madhya Pradesh with 44.19 per cent.
New Delhi: The newly-carved Telangana State shares the dubious distinction with BIMARU States like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar with the highest rural illiteracy, according to the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011.Rajasthan leads the pack of illiterate states with 47.58 per cent of its population falling in that category, followed by Madhya Pradesh with 44.19 per cent.
Bihar is at the third place with 43.85 per cent and followed by Telangana State with 40.42 per cent population belonging to this category.However, the most literate state of Kerala has only 11.38 per cent population falling under the illiterate category.
After Kerala, Goa has the least illiterate population with 15.42 per cent and Sikkim at the third spot with 20.12 per cent. Himachal Pradesh has also done well in terms of improving its literacy rate. The state has only 22.05 per cent illiterate population.
All India average of the rural population having below primary education is 13.97 per cent, while those studied till middle level are 13.53 per cent.The percentage of graduate and higher education is only 3.45 per cent across the country. However, Goa is ahead of Kerala in term of population with graduate and above education qualification. While Kerala only has 7.75 per cent falling in that category, 9.48 per cent Goa's population is graduate and above.
