Tripura on a League to be called Fully Literate State

15 April 2013
Agartala

India’s northeastern state of Tripura will be declared fully literate in September this year, state finance minister Badal Choudhury said here Friday.“On the occasion of World Literacy Day (Sep 8), Tripura will be declared a totally literate state. All our efforts to attain this goal have now borne fruit,” Tripura Finance Minister Badal Choudhury told IANS, after a meeting of the State Literacy Mission Authority (SLMA).

The Tripura government has taken efforts to make people in the 15-50 age group literate, instead of the upper age of 45. Over 8,250 voluntary literacy workers (VLW) are working through 8,152 adult literacy centres to make the leftover unlettered people literate,” the finance minister said.Tripura jumped to third position among the states of the country in literacy in the 2011 census, from the 12th position in the 2001 census.

According to the 2001 census, Tripura was the 12th most literate state in India with 73.19 percent literacy and the second most literate state in the northeast region after Mizoram, where the literacy rate was 88.80 percent.The two northeastern states are only behind Kerala (93.91 percent), which continues to occupy the top position in the literacy chart.

Source – http://www.mizonews.net/northeast/challenge-to-mizoram-and-kerala-tripura-to-be-declared-fully-literate/

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