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Literacy Rates- Districts Wise
Present
Literacy Status of the State.
As per 1991 census Punjab has a population of 2.02 crores and
the literacy rate was 58.51%.
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Rate
of literacy
|
Male
|
Female
|
|
General
|
65.66%
|
50.51%
|
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S.C.
|
33.35%
|
23.11%
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District
wise figures of literacy rate are depicted below :-
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Districts
wise figures of literacy rate
|
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State/
District
|
Literacy
Percentage 1991*
|
Literacy
Percentage 1991*
|
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Total
Population
|
Rural
|
Urban
|
Total
|
Males
|
Females
|
|
Punjab
|
202,81,969
|
52.77
|
72.08
|
58.51
|
65.66
|
50.41
|
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Gurdaspur
|
17,57,808
|
58.44
|
73.69
|
61.84
|
69.55
|
53.53
|
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Amritsar
|
25,05,034
|
49.73
|
73.94
|
58.08
|
65.07
|
20.10
|
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Fatehgarh
Sahib
|
4,61,520
|
60.31
|
73.85
|
63.25
|
69.45
|
56.13
|
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Firozpur
|
16,06,092
|
41.60
|
68.16
|
48.03
|
45.89
|
38.13
|
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Ludhiana
|
24,26,343
|
62.28
|
71.71
|
67.34
|
72.45
|
61.25
|
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Jalandhar
|
16,49,205
|
61.48
|
76.54
|
68.93
|
75.11
|
62.05
|
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Kapurthala
|
6,46,647
|
58.90
|
75.84
|
63.31
|
70.03
|
55.83
|
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Hoshiarpur
|
12,98,185
|
70.61
|
79.16
|
72.08
|
80.22
|
63.34
|
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Mansa
|
5,80,397
|
32.70
|
63.52
|
37.21
|
44.81
|
28.50
|
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Moga
|
6,26,391
|
47.89
|
67.86
|
52.24
|
57.91
|
45.84
|
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Muktsar
|
6,53,079
|
40.10
|
66.34
|
46.18
|
54.25
|
37.05
|
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Nawanshar
|
5,31,253
|
63.18
|
74.44
|
64.42
|
73.30
|
54.55
|
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Rupnagar
|
9,02,264
|
63.59
|
81.15
|
68.15
|
72.45
|
61.25
|
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Patiala
|
15,21,330
|
49.16
|
75.21
|
57.27
|
64.64
|
48.94
|
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Sangrur
|
16,85,449
|
41.25
|
60.42
|
45.99
|
56.21
|
37.67
|
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Bathinda
|
9,79,566
|
39.00
|
66.62
|
46.48
|
53.98
|
38.04
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Faridkot
|
4,51,406
|
42.33
|
65.45
|
49.97
|
57.13
|
41.88
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Note
:- Exclude children in the age group 0-6 who were treated as illiterates
in the 1991 Census.
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