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| Article Name : | | | LITERACY DIFFERENTIALS IN AHMEDNAGAR DISTRICT OF MAHARASHTRA | | Author Name : | | | S. N. PAWAR | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-2543 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Literacy level and educational attainment are vital indicators of socioeconomic development in a society and for changing women's position and status in the society. Literacy has been defined as, a person who can both read and write with understanding in any language is called as literate, as per 2001 Census. The present paper intends to examine literacy differential in general and gender wise in Ahmednagar District of Maharashtra. The Period selected for the present study is from 1991 to 2001. The present study is entirely based on secondary data which is collected from District Census Handbook, Socio-Economic Abstract of Ahmednagar District. Male-female and rural-urban literacy rate is calculated by using various literacy rate formulas. Present analysis reveals that the gender wise as well as ruralurban gap in literacy is decreased in the last decade with increasing literacy rate in the study region. But, there is still tahsilwise wide gap between male-female and rural-urban literacy rate. | | Keywords : | | |
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