The School Education department has identified over six lakh illiterate people over the age of 15 across Tamil Nadu.
It has begun classes to provide basic literacy education for them this year under the New India Literary Programme (NILP) or Puthiya Bharatha Ezhutharivu Thittam 2022-2027.
Krishnagiri district has recorded the maximum number of illiterates at 61,622.
The department plans to strategically take steps to declare districts with over 90% literacy as 100% literate districts soon.
Thoothukudi, Kanyakumari and nine others district’s literacy rate is about 94-98%.