female persons are separately calculated as 89.85 percent and 88.16 percent respectively.
The effective rate of literacy, calculated after excluding children below 7 years old, of the village population is found to be 96.43 percent. At present there are 49 male and -female illiterate persons in the sample households and their effective literacy rates are estimated as 97.24 percent and 95.63 percent respectively. Even though, adult education programmes were carried out in some parts of the village they were not very effective. It is observed that avast majority of illiterates in the study area belong to scheduled castes. In spite
of the high rate of literacy, it is observed that only 28 percent of the people in the study area have successfully completed their school education. About 17 percent of the local people are either school dropouts at the lower primary level itself or students of that level. Even though more than one- fourths of the local people have successfully completed their high school studies only less than 4 percent of them are degree holders in any stream. The parents while sending their children for higher education show some degree of bias infavour of the stronger sex. It is evident from the fact that while 13.31 percent of the male population in the study area is having education qualifications equivalent to pre degree or above, only 11.34 percent of the female population is having the same education status. Table 3.2 shows the education status of the members of households included in the pilot survey.
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