Tripura State achieved 96.82 percent Literacy Rate

Updated on: Thursday, September 10, 2015

tripura The Chief Minister of Tripura state, Manik Sarkar said that the state's literacy percent will soon increase from the existing 96.82 percent to 100 percent and the people would become economically self-reliant in a phased manner. "After three phases of literacy campaign since 2011, the literacy percentage now stands at 96.82 percent and it would reach 100 percent soon," Sarkar said while addressing an International Literacy Day function here.

The Chief Minister said, "After people become literate, they want to be economically self-reliant. We launched a self-employment scheme - Swabhalamban - for this purpose. During the three to four years, 15,000 families have became self-dependent but also offered scope of jobs to 35,000 to 50,000 people in their farms and TRADING hubs."

"Tripura state has gone up from 12th position as per the 2001 census to the fourth position in the 2011 census in literacy among different states of the country," Sarkar added. He said that after Tripura attained 87.75 percent literacy in the 2011 census, a government survey conducted by eight district magistrates in August 2012 found that only 131,634 out of the state's 37 lakh people, including those aged 50 and above, remained illiterate.

Sarkar said that in India, over 40 crore out of the 121 crore people were illiterate while the central government was gradually reducing allocation of funds for education sector. The present allocation of money for education was less than five percent, he said. Tripura state Education Minister Tapan Chakraborty said that in 1951, Tripura state literacy rate was 15 percent only.

Tripura State achieved 96.82 percent Literacy Rate

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