Washington: Women’s literacy rate is the lowest in India – the rural parts of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh which together contain half of India’s rural illiterate women. This is according to a World Bank study which calls for an appropriate strategy to correct the situation.
Only 21 per cent of the rural women are literate. This is less than half the rate for rural men and only one- third of that for urban women.
Female literacy rates fall below 10 per cent in 136 of India’s 386 rural districts. Most of these districts are in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. (Hindu Nov. 22).
