Department of Geography & GIS
Geographical analysis
Year: 2019, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 83-85
Original Article
R Shiva Kumar1, M R Shivaram2, S H Jayalakshmi1
1Guest Faculty, Department of Geography, Bangalore University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
2Assistant Professor, Sri Annadhaneshwara Arts, Science, Commerce First Grade College, Naregal, Gadag, Karnataka, India
Received Date:28 September 2019, Accepted Date:14 November 2019
Literacy is the first step towards independence, towards freedom from social and economic limitations. It is the prerequisite for development, both individual and collective. It reduces poverty and inequality, creates wealth, and helps to eradicate problems of nutrition and public health. This study is primarily concentrating on classified number of population literacy rate distribution in Mysore city in 2011. Each ward-wise population classified by High, Medium and Low category. In this study methods are using secondary data collected from census of India and with the help of GIS software techniques used for prepared population distribution maps. The Highest Literacy rate ward in Mysore City is Thonachikoppal 89.99 and the lowest Literacy rate ward in Mysore City is Ghousia Nagar 59.82.
Keywords: Literacy; Population; wardwise; Geographic Information System; Mysore City
© 2019 Kumar et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original author and source are credited.
Published By Bangalore University, Bengaluru, Karnataka
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