The gap between rural and urban India in education has narrowed notably in the decade leading up to 2011, according to the recently released Census figures.
The Census shows that in 2011, 26.46 per cent of the total urban population was attending classes compared to 25.76 per cent in non-urban areas.
While rural India is home to around 830 million people, about 370 million reside in towns and cities. In absolute numbers, both areas saw a roughly similar increase in population, at 90 million. But while the decadal percentage growth in population attending educational institutions in urban areas was 0.91 percent, it was five times in rural areas at 4.8 percent.
Gender wise Breakup:
A genderwise breakup also suggests the same. The percentage point increase in rural males and females heading towards classrooms are much higher than their urban counterparts. While the increase in rural areas was 3.81 percentage points among males and 5.83 percentage points among females, in urban areas, the growth fell to 1.02 per cent points among males and 0.81 points among females.
Such recurring trends suggest socio-economic factors are at play in rural areas – such as sustained increase in educational facilities and changing attitudes towards education.
The major highlights of the Census 2011:
The population of India has increased by more than 181 million during the decade 2001-2011.
Percentage growth in 2001-2011 is 17.64; males 17.19 and females 18.12.
Uttar Pradesh (199.5 million) is the most populous State in the country followed by Maharashtra with 112 million.
During 2001-2011, as many as 25 States/UTs with a share of about 85% of the country’s population registered an annual growth rate of less than 2% as compared to, 15 States/UTs with a share of about 42% during the period 1991-2001.
15 States/UTs have grown by less than 1.5 per cent per annum during 20012011, while the number of such States/UTs was only 4 during the previous decade.
Twenty States and Union Territories now have over one million children in the age group 06 years. On the other extreme, there are five States and Union Territories in the country that are yet to reach the one hundred thousand mark.
Uttar Pradesh (29.7 million), Bihar (18.6 million), Maharashtra (12.8 million), Madhya Pradesh (10.5 million) and Rajasthan (10.5 million) constitute 52% children in the age group of 06 years.
Three major States (J&K, Bihar & Gujarat) have shown decline in sex ratio as compared to Census 2001.
Kerala with 1084 has the highest sex ratio followed by Puducherry with 1038, Daman & Diu has the lowest sex ratio of 618.
Literacy rate has gone up from 64.83 per cent in 2001 to 74.04 per cent in 2011 showing an increase of 9.21 percentage points.
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