What is India's overall literacy rate according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey 2025?
- A.74.04 per cent
- B.77.4 per cent
- C.81.1 per cent
- D.89 per cent
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Explanation
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.
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Practice Questions
How many States and Union Territories had declared themselves fully literate between 2024 and 2026?
- A.Five
- B.Eight
- C.Ten
- D.Fourteen
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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.
Read the full explanation →What is the financial outlay of the ULLAS scheme for the period 2022-27?
- A.1,037.90 crore rupees
- B.2,037.90 crore rupees
- C.5,000 crore rupees
- D.737.90 crore rupees
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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.
Read the full explanation →Under which scheme was NIPUN Bharat launched in July 2021?
- A.PM POSHAN
- B.Samagra Shiksha
- C.PM e-VIDYA
- D.PM SHRI
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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…
Read the full explanation →How many interrelated components make up the Knowledge Ecosystem outlined in the paper?
- A.Five
- B.Six
- C.Eight
- D.Ten
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The Actionable Policy Paper sets out a Knowledge Ecosystem built from eight connected components, which include knowledge capabilities and assets, enabling infrastructure, knowledge creation activities, knowledge products, knowledge-embedded products, knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship and knowledge application.
Read the full explanation →By which date can feedback be sent to MoSPI on the Actionable Policy Paper on measuring knowledge in the economy?
- A.30 November 2026
- B.12 December 2026
- C.31 December 2026
- D.15 January 2027
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The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation invited feedback and suggestions from all stakeholders and the general public on the Actionable Policy Paper, and set that day as the closing date for the consultation.
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