Report for Planning Commission Government of India on Development Interventions in Bihar and Preparation of Model Development Plan for Villages

Abstract

Literacy campaign begun in eighties have helped the weaker sections in Bihar. The decadal growth in eighties in total literacy of Scheduled caste was nearly the literacy rate which the scheduled caste had achieved in three decades during 1951 to 1981, whereas the literacy rate among females (S.Cs) in eighties had been nearly twice of the literacy rate gained during this thirty year period.