Lok Sabha Question No. 4441 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-08-20
Subject: Literacy Position in the Country
Ministry: STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION
Asked by: Shri Subbarayan K, Com. Selvaraj V

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4441 TO BE ANSWERED ON 20.08.2025

## LITERACY POSITION IN THE COUNTRY

4441. SHRI SUBBARAYAN K: COM. SELVARAJ V:

Will the Minister of STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2023-24 has been  released  showing  the  overall  literacy  position  in  the country; and
- (b) if so, the gist of the survey findings and Government's reaction thereof? if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF STATISTICS  AND  PROGRAMME  IMPLEMENTATION;  MINISTER  OF STATE  (INDEPENDENT  CHARGE)  OF  THE  MINISTRY  OF  PLANNING AND  MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  CULTURE  [RAO INDERJIT SINGH]

- (a) to (b): The  National  Statistics  Office  (NSO),  MoSPI  has  been conducting the  Periodic  Labour  Force  Survey  (PLFS)  since  2017  to estimate various indicators related to employment and unemployment situation in the country.

From the PLFS conducted during July 2023- June 2024, the estimates of  Literacy  Rate  (in  percent)  among  persons  of age group 7 years &

above for each State/ UT and All-India are given in table below:

| (1)                                |   (2) |
|------------------------------------|-------|
| Andhra Pradesh                     |  72.6 |
| Arunachal Pradesh                  |  84.2 |
| Assam                              |  87   |
| Bihar                              |  74.3 |
| Chhattisgarh                       |  78.5 |
| Delhi                              |  86.9 |
| Goa                                |  93.6 |
| Gujarat                            |  84.6 |
| Haryana                            |  84.8 |
| Himachal Pradesh                   |  88.8 |
| Jharkhand                          |  76.7 |
| Karnataka                          |  82.7 |
| Kerala                             |  95.3 |
| Madhya Pradesh                     |  75.2 |
| Maharashtra                        |  87.3 |
| Manipur                            |  92   |
| Meghalaya                          |  94.2 |
| Mizoram                            |  98.2 |
| Nagaland                           |  95.7 |
| Odisha                             |  79   |
| Punjab                             |  83.4 |
| Rajasthan                          |  75.8 |
| Sikkim                             |  84.7 |
| Tamil Nadu                         |  85.5 |
| Telangana                          |  76.9 |
| Tripura                            |  93.7 |
| Uttarakhand                        |  83.8 |
| Uttar Pradesh                      |  78.2 |
| West Bengal                        |  82.6 |
| Andaman & N. Island                |  91.1 |
| Chandigarh                         |  93.7 |
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli & Daman & Diu |  87.8 |
| Jammu & Kashmir                    |  82   |
| Ladakh                             |  81   |
| Lakshadweep                        |  97.3 |
| Puducherry                         |  92.7 |
| All India                          |  80.9 |