The provisional Indian census data for 2011 is now out. As a data nerd, I couldn't but visualize this data. Overall, the literacy rate for India jumped to 74.4% which is good. Here is a map visualizing data by states & union territories. As you can see, Kerala & Mizoram take the top honours with over 90% literacy. My home state Karnataka does a bit above national average at 75.60%. The slackers Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand & Andhra Pradesh (AP) have literacy rates below 70%. Hope Nitish Babu is listening! I was surprised to see AP doing so bad though.
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