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The development of any nation lies in the population of that country, if the state population are well literate, having an ability and caliber to assimilate the simple text and are in position to write it too. It becomes an easy task for the people of the country to comprehend the real problems and challenges of the nation.
Literacy is not the same as education, literacy is confined only to having an ability to read and write simple text whereas education stands for the continuous process of getting knowledge of certain sets of things which may include any skill work, morality and ethics, faith and belief etc.
India is a country of myriad population hence, its literacy rate weighs a very vital position for developing the nation in every comparable field that would be in terms of economy, technology, education, and politics etc.
The Indian government took up various steps forward to increase the literacy rate in India and It is improving day by day but there are some states of India, which are not performing well in comparison to other states of India like Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan etc.
Literacy also helps the people to feel the actual human rights issues which are very pertinent in the world at large. It gives the feeling of not standing alone.
Literacy Rate Of India
India is known to be a diverse nation as the population of Indian states are different in amples ways. There are around more than 400 languages(including the mother tongue) spoken in India, arts and culture of every state is different, almost every religion of people can be seen in India, despite the numerous variations there is great unity and integrity in the nation.
The literacy rate of India as a country revolves around 74-75% and ranked 128 position out of 167 countries (as per 2018 report data)
There are altogether 28 states and 8 union territories in India and their literacy rate is also not in matching with each other. For the sake of brevity, this article is providing some best performing states in terms of literacy rate and bad performing states as it is quite important to know in order to discern the reasons behind it.
Top Performing States With Reference To Literacy Rate In India
Kerala – it again topped the rank by scoring the 96% of literacy rate in the state, however it is very questionable how kerala has been maintaining this rank for at least the last decade. It has been observed that in Kerala there are more government schools than private schools, at every 2 km a primary or secondary can be spotted out.
Delhi- it scored 88% and placed second rank in the list after Kerala and its performance is good also because of its population, Delhi’s all over population is around 2 crores. However the government policies play a very important role in making the count of 88%.
Uttarakhand – it scored 87% and acquired third position in the list which is admirable.
Himachal Pradesh- It scored 86% and achieved the position of 4th in the NSO prepared report on the literacy rate.
Bad Performing States with the reference To Literacy Rate In India
Andhra Pradesh – it becomes the worst performing state in the terms of literacy rate in India as it scored 66% which is lowest among all the states of India.
Rajasthan – it was ranked second worst state in terms of literacy rate as it scored only 69%.
Bihar – it was spotted third most bad performing state in India with reference to literacy rate and scored 70%.
Telangana- In Spite of that Telangana is a south Indian State not able to score satisfactory score in the index of literacy rate in India, it has scored 72% only.
Uttar Pradesh- Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state in India and it has scored 73% in the literacy rate index as published by NSO.
Conclusion
It is an indisputable fact that literacy plays a very crucial role in nation building and personal growth of the people and gives the sense of ability to separate the chaff from the grain. Promoting the literacy rate in the country is a step towards the achievement of the Sustainable development Goal (SDG) of the United Nation. Literacy rate will play a key role in accomplishment of India’s aspiration to be as a world power.
