PATTERN OF LITERACY IN KARNATAKA (2001-2011)

Nayak M G

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Year: 2015, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 13-18

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PATTERN OF LITERACY IN KARNATAKA (2001-2011)

Nayak M.G

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Karnataka University of Dharwad, Dharwad, Karnataka.

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Abstract

Abstract Literacy is essential for eradication of poverty and intellectual development and for creating peaceful and friendly human relations. This paper tries to understand the pattern of literacy in the state of Karnataka with the help of census data of 1951 to 2011. It also focuses light on the present state and pattern of literacy across the district of the state.The study reveals that Karnataka has witnessed a past rate of literacy particularly after independence, the period of five decades (1951-2001). During 2001-2011, the state has witnessed an exceeding high rate of literacy.

Key words: Literacy,