First fully functional literate district
August 21 , 2022
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- Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh has become the first completely “functionally literate” district of India.
- During 2011 survey, literacy rate in Mandla district was 68%.
- Another report of 2020 highlights that, more than 2.25 lakh people in this district were not literate, most of them were tribals from forest areas.
- The district collector claiming that all the people were able to write their names, count and read.
- A person can be called functionally literate when he or she is able to write his or her own name, to count and read and write in a language.
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