Talk:List of Indian states and union territories by literacy rate

Semi-protection
Due to the number of unreferenced and unexplained number changes in this article, I've reverted back to November and semi-protected it. Dougweller (talk) 13:55, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Reference required for the literacy rate table done by NFHS-3. The link provided to the NFHS website does not provide this details.

2013
Any link for 2013's statistics? Bladesmulti (talk) 13:57, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Requesting to edit a table related to literacy rates of india
Hi there, I request you to go through the below link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_states_ranking_by_literacy_rate and please edit the 23rd and 31st states which are actually interchanged. Actually Andhra Pradesh should be in 31st place and Karnataka should be in 23rd. It helps so many students who are preparing for compititive exams as I am one among them.The graph below is showing the census rates in proper order but the table need to be edited.Please go through this.

Hemakiranchinta (talk) 08:51, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

✅ Noyster  (talk),  10:55, 11 August 2014 (UTC)


 * And will anyone who disagrees please state their grounds here, rather than risk embarking on an edit war. Thank you Noyster  (talk),  15:13, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Andhra Pradesh literacy
The literacy rate per THIS OFFICIAL DOCUMENT OF Andhra Pradesh GOVT page 43 states as 67.41.-- Vin09 &thinsp; (talk)   19:41, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
 * It might help if you actually told exactly what was supposed to be 67.4% so we don't have to read through your edit to figure it out. It appears you are referring to Andhra Pradesh. Since your 2014 source states that it is using the 2011 census data then it should be fine. I will clarify the comment so it is clear the source is still using the 2011 census data. 21:55, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I think you forgot to sign your earlier post. Earlier we had discussed at Talk:Andhra_Pradesh. Does ranking do not apply for Andhra and Telangana?-- Vin09 &thinsp; (talk)   03:44, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes that was my post (I mistakenly used 5 tildes rather than 4). Sorry, I don't understand your question. You had removed the rankings for Andhra_Pradesh and and Telangana, and I restored your edit as you made it, with a minor clarification that the 2014 source was using the 2011 census data. Meters (talk) 17:17, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

I've never removed ranks, it was another user, not me.-- Vin09 &thinsp; (talk)   18:33, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
 * My apologies. I did indeed have your and the other editor's contributions conflated. Now that I have completely messed this up and confused myself and both you and the other editor i don't know that I should touch this article again. I'll leave it to you and the other editor to decide what to do.
 * As I understand it the article originally had one ranking for what has now split to become two separate states. Since the 2014 division was after the 2011 census I would suggest leaving the combined 2011 ranking, and adding a note that the data is from before the division. The other option is to list the sourced literacy data (from the 2011 census) for the two new states, but to make it clear that at the time of the census they were one state. I don't think it makes sense to use a ranking number that results in more states than existed at the time of the census. 23:16, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
 * We already had a discussion at Talk:Andhra Pradesh and the consensus was to add census 2011 data. One more point to be mentioned, though the states were split they have splitted data per reference, so it's not a problem to add it.-- Vin09 &thinsp; (talk)   03:55, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Tripura holds first position in India with Highest Literacy of 94.65 percent. Tripura beats Kerala in literacy
India's northeastern state of Tripura achieved the first position in literacy with 94.65 per cent, beating Kerala (93.91 per cent), Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar announced here on Sunday. "Tripura jumped to first position among the states of the country in literacy from the 12th position in the 2001 census and the fourth position in the 2011 census," Sarkar said at a function on the occasion of International Literacy Day. Sarkar said that after Tripura attained 87.75 percent literacy in the 2011 census, a government survey was conducted by the eight district magistrates in August 2012 which found that only 131,634 people of the state's 37 lakh people, including those aged 50 and above, were illiterate. "Over 8,254 voluntary literacy workers (VLW) have worked tremendously with full dedication under 8,152 adult literacy centres to make the leftover (131,634 people) unlettered people literate," the chief minister said. Over 85 master trainers have supervised the work of the VLWs, who have worked at the village and habitation levels. Anganwadi workers under the social welfare department have also assisted the VLWs in their endeavour. "The final evaluation of the neo-literate people was conducted across the state August 10-25 under the supervision of the (Kolkata-based) Indian Statistical Institution (ISI)," the chief minister said, adding that the state's literacy had now risen to 94.65 percent from the 87.75 percent in the 2011 census. The state government felt, Sarkar said, that after the final report of the ISI, the state's literacy would cross 96 percent.

Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Tripura-beats-Kerala-in-literacy/articleshow/22416019.cms

So, Now Tripura has highest Literacy rate in India. 106.51.17.239 (talk) 11:08, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Not done. All the values in that list are based on 2011 census not some random statement by the Chief Minister of the state. Adding this value is ad hoc and not in sync with the page. Adamgerber80 (talk) 11:22, 8 January 2018 (UTC)