The present paper is an attempt to study the literacy rate in North Eastern states of India. For this purpose, the paper considers the total population and literacy rates for eight states of North Eastern India as per census 2001 and 2011.
The objective of the present study is to analyze and compare the literacy rate of last two census of the state in North East India.
For analyzing the objective, the present study has fully relied on secondary data which was collected from census reports, records and journal.
This paper concludes that Mizoram has the highest literacy rate of 91.3% and Arunachal Pradesh has the lowest rate of 65.4% in the last two censuses.
Education, Census, Literacy rates, North East India. Background
