Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nThe rural-urban gap remains significant in literacy, accessibility to schools and household expenditure on education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Accessibility to schools, 7% of the rural households have a primary school within 1 km as compared to 87.2% in urban areas. But only 38% of the rural household have access to secondary school as compared to 70% in the urban areas on similar parameters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The all India literacy rate among persons aged 7 years and above is 77.7%. However, for the same age group, the rural literacy is 73.5% and in the urban areas it is 87.7%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a digital divide, too, with just 4% of the rural households having access to computers as compared to 23% in urban areas. While 15% surveyed population in the rural cluster has internet access, 42% of the surveyed students in the urban areas have access to the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Annual average expenditure per student at secondary and senior secondary level in a rural household stands at Rs 5,856 and Rs 9,148 respectively. An urban household for the same classes spends Rs 17,518 and Rs 23,832 respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Around 76% of the rural children are attending primary and middle school run by the government, while only 38% of the urban children are attending government schools and instead prefer private schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The latest nationwide survey conducted by the the National Statistics Office (NSO) titled \u2018Household Social Consumption: Education\u2019 reveals that India\u2019s rural-urban divide extends to education as well, including expenditure on education and access to digital resources. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The rural-urban gap remains significant in literacy, accessibility to schools and household expenditure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":25384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1175],"tags":[114],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-25383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-july-2020","tag-education-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25385,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25383\/revisions\/25385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25383"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=25383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}