Got ya, don't say me that ur Source is ToI which is absolutely worked up with the idea of Pak...
http://www.sdpi.org/whats_new/reporton/State of Curr&TextBooks.pdf
Don't u know that this literacy rate of urz include people who can only write their names, always tell the tell Full stories....
These figures are based on the norms of Unesco
Literacy as defined by UNESCO is given below. [8]
1. A literate person is one who can with understanding both read and write a short simple statement relevant to his everyday life.
2. Literacy is not the simple reading of a word or a set of associated symbols and sounds, but an act of critical understanding of men's situation in the world.
3. Literacy is not an end in itself but a means of personal liberation and development and extending individuals educational efforts involving overall inter-disciplinary responses to concrete problems
4. A literate person is one who has acquired all the essential knowledge and skills which enable him to engage in all those activities in which literacy is required for effective functioning in his group and community and whose attaining in reading, writing and numeracy make it possible to use these skills towards his own and his community's development.
The National Literacy Mission defines literacy as acquiring the skills of reading, writing and arithmetic and the ability to apply them to one's day-to-day life. The achievement of functional literacy implies:
* Self-reliance in 3 R's
* Becoming aware of the causes of deprivation and moving towards amelioration of their condition by participating in the process of development
* Acquiring skills to improve their economic status and general well being
* Imbibing values of national integration, conservation of environment, women's equality, observance of small family norms, etc.
The working definition of literacy in the Indian census since 1991 is as follows:[9]
* "Literacy rate":
The total percentage of the population of an area at a particular time aged seven years or above who can read and write with understanding. Here the denominator is the population aged seven years or more.
* "Crude literacy rate":
The total percentage of the people of an area at a particular time aged seven years or above who can read and write with understanding, taking the total population of the area (including below seven years of age) as the denominator.
yes yes there are world Class colleges that why so many Indians go abroad for Education,
name one country including US which does not have education exchange program. I am not talking about war trodden countries.
U think I m Fool or an illiterate, how may World Class Engg universities in India u can count them IIT & a few others even some Pakistani universities are there in World Top 500 Universities did ur ToI ever told u about that??
Forget IIT and IIM.
Name one university equivalent to following
AMU(Aligarh Muslim University)
30,000 students(mainly Muslims)
100 years free electricity
chancellor as president of India
Doctorate @ 15 to 20,000 only
UPTECH
230 engineering colleges within UP
Forget about management and other courses.
XLRI
Admission to the flagship programs is through XLRI's entrance test - (XAT[1]). XAT scores may also be used for applying to other XAT affiliated B-schools. XAT 2008 had more than 89000 applicants. XLRI has about 240 seats in its two-year flagship programs - Business Management & PMIR and 120 seats in the one-year General Management Program.
XLRI began offering the Executive Programme in Dubai in collaboration with the Al Abbas Institute of Technology from October 2001. A new chapter was set up in Singapore in March 2006 in alliance with Image International.
Anna university
Anna University, Chennai turns out over 65,000 engineering graduates every year. The university has over 3,800 Ph.D. scholars registered in its various departments of the university and in affiliated engineering colleges in the state and approved R&D organizations.
Anna University, Chennai has conducted university examinations with the assistance of 10 zonal centers since 2002. About 2,550,000 undergraduate students and 35,000 postgraduate students register for semester examinations and the examinations are conducted for 31 undergraduate and 70 postgraduate programmes involving 3,000 subjects. Nearly 2 million answer scripts are evaluated in 10 zonal centers by 8,000 examiners.