60 % living alone or in nuclear families 85.9 % unaware of their human rights Every sixth old person living in urban areas in the country does not get proper food, every third old person does not get proper medicine or health care in old age and every second old person does not receive due respect or good treatment from family member or society. These are among the findings of a study on...

Jharkhand now boasts a healthy Literacy figure of 67.63 per cent, up by almost 14 per cent since 2001. Thanks to the centrally-sponsored Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, almost all the 32,000 villages in the state now have schools compared to only 16,000 in 2000. Provisional census data released today suggests that Literacy figures improved from 54 per cent in 2001 to nearly 68 per cent. Male Literacy increased from 67 per cent in...

Tribal dominated districts have turned the theory of bias for male offspring on its head, while Literacy levels have registered a surprisingly high growth, perhaps signalling a marginal improvement in the overall social structure of a largely underdeveloped state held hostage to political instability and Left wing extremism. According to provisional data of Census 2011 for Jharkhand, released by director of census operations Sunil Kumar Burnwal today, tribal dominated districts like...

Census 2011 has brought glad tidings on the Literacy front. Delhi's Literacy rate - recorded as 86.34% - has gone up by 4.67% in comparison to Census 2001, which recorded a Literacy rate of 81.67%. One of the significant developments is the narrowing of the gap between male and female Literacy rate - a drop of 2.53% - which is also the highest dip recorded so far. The difference between...

The provisional data of Census 2011 for the state shows the districts of Churu and Barmer with negative growth in Literacy. While Churu's Literacy rate has fallen from 67.59% to 67.46%, Barmer reported a much higher drop from 58.99% to 57.49%. Director, Census Operations, Rajasthan Shubra Singh pointed out that in the Census 2001, none of the districts had reported negative growth. The state also holds the dubious distinction of having...