-The Hindu Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal have stolen a march over India in quality of school education. Data from new research on female Literacy show that India’s school education system is under-performing in terms of quality when compared to its neighbours, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. The research studies changes in female Literacy over a number of schooling years. The proportion of women who completed five years of primary schooling in India and were...

-TheWire.in/ IndiaSpend.org But female participation in India’s workforce has declined from 34% in 1999 to 27% in 2014, making it the worst rate among BRICS nations. The five states with the largest proportion of literate women – Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Maharashtra – account for 53% (4.3 million) of all business establishments owned by women nationwide, although no more than 33% of India’s women live in these states,...

-Business Standard On life expectancy at birth, India fares marginally better than Pakistan New Delhi: Reacting to the terrorist strike at the army camp in Uri, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged Pakistan to go to war against poverty, unemployment, ilLiteracy and infant mortality instead, saying let’s see who wins those wars. But a Business Standard examination of various human development indicators suggests that while currently India fares better on most key indicators,...

-The Hindu Business Line Although Literacy levels are improving, there’s not enough learning happening. This calls for urgent attention This year, marks the 50th year of International Literacy Day. In 1966, UNESCO declared September 8 as International Literacy Day to “mobilize the international community and to promote Literacy as an instrument to empower individuals, communities and societies”. At Independence in 1947, India had a Literacy rate of 12 per cent, which stands today...

-PTI Muslims have the highest number of illiterates — nearly 43 percent of their population — while Jains have the highest number of literates among India’s religious communities with over 86 percent of them educated. According to the Census 2011 data, Jains have just 13.57 percent illiterates aged seven and above among all communities. The census has taken those between 0 and 6 years as illiterate. Muslims have the highest percentage of illiterates aged...