Rural Urban Literacy Disparity –A Study In Dhubri District, Assam

Abstract

Literacy is necessary indicator of human development of a region. Literacy is very important for the development of culture, socio-economic infrastructure of any region. The present study examines rural urban disparities of literacy in Dhubri district by using Sopher’s modified formula. For the present study secondary data has been collected from census of India 2011. The present paper is an attempt to study the rural urban disparity of population in Dhubri district. The present study also compares the rural urban along with male-female literacy level of the Dhubri district. The rural urban literacy differences as well as male female literacy differences are highly variable throughout the district. In the present study urban literacy is high whether rural literacy is low. The findings of the study show that among the nine circles of the study area Agamoni is the highest literacy rate.