Trends and Patterns of literacy in Faridabad Urban (Faridabad District, Haryana)

Literacy is one of the significant indicators for overall development of Human being. This present paper aimed to study and analyze the spatio-temporal pattern of literacy in Faridabad urban and also examined the male-female and gender gap in literacy. On a whole, there was an imperative increase in literacy rates of Faridabad urban and it had increased from 67.67 percent to 72.72 percent during 2001–2011. Disparities was also found between males and females literacy and literacy rate of males was higher as compared to females of Faridabad urban. As a result, female was far lagging behind male literacy.