more-inFourteen per cent of rural youth in the age group of 14-18 failed to identify the map of India, says the 2017 Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), brought out by Pratham. Significantly, 36% of those surveyed did not know that Delhi is the capital of India. Change in focus“ASER 2017 focuses on an older age group: youth who are 14 to 18 years old,” the report says. “At age 14, only 5.3% are not enrolled, but by age 17 this percentage quadruples to 20.7% and further increases to 30.2% at age 18. “About 25% of this age group still cannot read basic texts fluently in their own language.

Source: The Hindu January 16, 2018 17:03 UTC