Literacy Rate Reaches 81.1% as Ten States Declare Full Literacy

The correct answer is 81.1 per cent. The Periodic Labour Force Survey of 2025 puts the country's overall literacy rate at that level, and this is the headline figure quoted for India's literacy today. Option A, 74.04 per cent, is wrong because that was the literacy rate recorded in the 2011 Census, an older measurement and not the survey result. Option B, 77.4 per cent, is wrong because that is only the rural literacy rate for people aged seven years and above in the same survey, not the figure for the whole country. Option D, 89 per cent, is wrong because that is the urban literacy rate for the age group of seven years and above, again a part of the picture rather than the national average. Candidates should keep the three apart: 81.1 per cent for the nation, 89 per cent urban and 77.4 per cent rural.

The correct answer is ten. The States and Union Territories that declared full literacy in that period are Ladakh, Mizoram, Goa, Tripura, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir, which comes to ten in all. Option A, five, is wrong because it counts only half the list. Option B, eight, is wrong for the same reason and leaves out two of the ten names. Option D, fourteen, is wrong because no such number of States or Union Territories has crossed the mark; the declaration rests on reaching 95 per cent literacy, which is the level the Department of School Education and Literacy treats as full literacy, and only ten have reported it so far. Remembering the list matters because questions often ask which State is not among them.

The correct answer is 1,037.90 crore rupees. ULLAS, also known as the Nav Bharat Saaksharta Karyakram or the New India Literacy Programme, aims to cover 5 crore learners over 2022-27, and that outlay is the sum sanctioned for the period. Options B and D simply alter the digits of the true figure and have no basis, and option C is a round number that is not the sanctioned amount either. The scheme is centrally sponsored, is aligned with the National Education Policy and works for adults of 15 years and above who missed formal schooling. It counts about 4.03 crore registered learners and more than 52.20 lakh volunteers, while over 3.3 crore learners have appeared for the Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Assessment Test. Learn the outlay together with the learner target, since both are asked.

The correct answer is Samagra Shiksha. The National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy, shortened to NIPUN Bharat, was begun in July 2021 under the aegis of Samagra Shiksha and works on the foundational stage covering children of 3 to 8 years, with the goal of universal foundational literacy and numeracy by 2026-27 so that every child gains the basic skills by Grade 2. Option A is wrong because PM POSHAN is the scheme that serves one hot cooked meal to school students and is about nutrition, not reading and numeracy. Option C is wrong because PM e-VIDYA brings together digital, online and on-air learning. Option D is wrong because PM SHRI is the scheme to develop exemplar schools. Samagra Shiksha itself subsumed Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan and Teacher Education.