INDIA’S ILLITERACY
APPALLING REVELATIONS IN REPORT United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, May 17. "Appalling,” is the description applied to the figures of Indian illiteracy in the Government of India’s Report on Education for 1935. The report shows that the proportion of population of school-going age is 12 per cent., yet the proportion under instruction is only 5 per cent, representing the only enrolment.
The report, instancing wastage, says that out of 5,281,385 boys and girls who entered Class I. in 1931-2, only 1,206,958 remained to reach Class IV. and attain literacy in 1934-5.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20731, 19 May 1937, Page 9
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