Female Literacy

The number of non-literates in the country in the age group of 15 years and above was 25.76 crore (9.08 crore male and 16.68 crore female) according to the 2011 census. Currently, an estimated 18.12 crore adults in the country are illiterate, the Education Ministry said.

The enrollment rate for girls stands at 23.5 per cent and for boys, it is 25.4 per cent at Higher Education level.

The proportion of anaemic, pregnant women dropped 12 percentage points over a decade to 2015, government health data show, but India still has more anaemic women than any other country and a prevalence rate above the global average.

States with higher literacy rates for woman see better indicators for women's health, IndiaSpend analysis of data from the National Family Health Survey 2013-14 reveals.

Kami-Shirataki, a remote train station in Japan that was meant to close down three years ago, has stayed active to cater to one lone passenger. A train makes stops at the station twice each day just so a teen can travel to and from high school.

52-year-old P K Zainaba is doing what no woman has ever done in Malappuram. She is contesting the national election on a CPM ticket in this Kerala town where the rate of women's participation in the workforce is a mere 7.63 per cent despite an astounding female literacy rate of 90 per cent.

The birth of a fourth child in the Capital has come down in a big way in the last two decades, a Delhi government report on Tuesday pointed out, adding that there is a direct relationship between the level of educational attainment of the mother and order of births in a family.According to the annual report on "Registration of Birth and Death event...

On International Literacy Day, the Bihar govt has launched an ambitious project towards female literacy, promising literacy to 40 lakh women in just 6 months.

The number of non-literates in the country in the age group of 15 years and above was 25.76 crore (9.08 crore male and 16.68 crore female) according to the 2011 census. Currently, an estimated 18.12 crore adults in the country are illiterate, the Education Ministry said.

The enrollment rate for girls stands at 23.5 per cent and for boys, it is 25.4 per cent at Higher Education level.

The proportion of anaemic, pregnant women dropped 12 percentage points over a decade to 2015, government health data show, but India still has more anaemic women than any other country and a prevalence rate above the global average.

States with higher literacy rates for woman see better indicators for women's health, IndiaSpend analysis of data from the National Family Health Survey 2013-14 reveals.

Kami-Shirataki, a remote train station in Japan that was meant to close down three years ago, has stayed active to cater to one lone passenger. A train makes stops at the station twice each day just so a teen can travel to and from high school.

52-year-old P K Zainaba is doing what no woman has ever done in Malappuram. She is contesting the national election on a CPM ticket in this Kerala town where the rate of women's participation in the workforce is a mere 7.63 per cent despite an astounding female literacy rate of 90 per cent.

The birth of a fourth child in the Capital has come down in a big way in the last two decades, a Delhi government report on Tuesday pointed out, adding that there is a direct relationship between the level of educational attainment of the mother and order of births in a family.According to the annual report on "Registration of Birth and Death event...

On International Literacy Day, the Bihar govt has launched an ambitious project towards female literacy, promising literacy to 40 lakh women in just 6 months.