10-16-2019, 04:27 PM
Literates and illiterates
The numbers of literates and illiterates aged seven and above in India as per the provisional population totals of census 2011 is 778, 454, 120 and 272, 950, 015 respectively. There has been a marked improvement in the proportion of literates in the last decade. Literates in 2011 constitute 74 % of the total population aged seven and above as compared to 65% in 2001.
Information on literacy is canvassed regarding every individual in the census. For the purpose of census a person aged seven and above, who can both read and write with understanding in any languages, is treated as literate. A person, who can only read but cannot write, they are not literate. In the census prior to 1991, children below five years of age were necessarily treated as illiterates.
That literacy has externalities is widely accepted. An illiterate, who is connected to a literate person or has easy access to one, gets many of the benefits of literacy. Such a person, a “proximate illiterate,” is much better off than an “isolated illiterate,” that is, an illiterate who lives amidst people who are all illiterates.
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Literacy Rate in India DR. NAVINCHANDRA R. SHAH
The numbers of literates and illiterates aged seven and above in India as per the provisional population totals of census 2011 is 778, 454, 120 and 272, 950, 015 respectively. There has been a marked improvement in the proportion of literates in the last decade. Literates in 2011 constitute 74 % of the total population aged seven and above as compared to 65% in 2001.
Information on literacy is canvassed regarding every individual in the census. For the purpose of census a person aged seven and above, who can both read and write with understanding in any languages, is treated as literate. A person, who can only read but cannot write, they are not literate. In the census prior to 1991, children below five years of age were necessarily treated as illiterates.
That literacy has externalities is widely accepted. An illiterate, who is connected to a literate person or has easy access to one, gets many of the benefits of literacy. Such a person, a “proximate illiterate,” is much better off than an “isolated illiterate,” that is, an illiterate who lives amidst people who are all illiterates.
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Literacy Rate in India DR. NAVINCHANDRA R. SHAH