literacy rate in india

India
May 8, 2010 4:19am CST
The history of education has a long past.the first seats of learning were in India,Mesopotamia and Egypt and, at later date in Greece. the nalanda university(India) is one of the oldest university in world, where Chinese monk xuanzang came to learn Buddhist philosophy, Sanskrit and mathematics in 625BC. literacy rate in India is key for socio-economic progress, and the literacy rate grew to 66% in 2007from 12% at the end of British rule in 1947. there is a wide gender disparity in the literacy rate in India adult (15+years)literacy rates in 2009 were 76.9% for men and 54.5% for women. the low female literacy rate has had a dramatically negative impact on Family Planning And Population Stabilization Efforts in India. the earlier years those parents are not send their children to schools. now each and every one should sending their children s to schools.
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