Female Literacy Scenario-A Study of Haryana State

Abstract

Education is foremost and important dynamic medium of an all round development of women. It is because education is accompanied by awakening consciousness, prosperity, awareness of rights, ability to talk decision, competence to establish one’s identity and besides, education eradicates the darkness of bad customs and outworn rituals to bloom the dawn of a new era. Educated women are not the only ones who reap benefit of it, but the coming generations also receive the benefits of it to return their contribution in the development of the social and economical aspects of the country. Education, on the one hand is an asset that can neither be snatched nor be distributed. On the other hand it is a weapon which may provide the sinuous power. This research paper is based on female literacy rate of Haryana state. The present paper is an attempt to study literacy rate in one of the northern sates of India, i.e., Haryana. The inter district disparities have been analysed to study the situation of literacy rate in Haryana State. Haryana is the 16th largest state of India and is stretched over an area of 44,212 sq. km. The total population of this state, as per the census report, 2011, is 25,353,081 with a population density of 573.4 per sq. km.