Recasting Citizenship for Development - File UPI

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Table 8.2
Educational Attainments
No of
Enrolment primary
Urban- Gender ratio for age Drop-out schools per
Rural gap gap in group 6 to rates in thousand
Literacy in literacy literacy below 11 classes I–IV population
States Rate 2001 2001 2001 years 1991 1998–99 (p) (1997–98)
Arunachal
Pradesh 54.74 (8) 30.48 (1) 19.83 (1) 61.5 (7) 46.89 (5) 8.21 (5)
Assam 64.28 (6) 24.84 (3) 15.9 0(4) 63.4 (6) 41.56 (6) 8.62 (4)
Manipur 68.87 (4) 14.71 (8) 18.17 (2) 71.9 (4) 52.59 (2) 8.69 (3)
Meghalaya 63.31 (7) 30.12 (2) 5.73 (7) 55.4 (8) 62.44 (1) 13.38 (1)
Mizoram 88.49 (1) 15.89 (7) 4.56 (8) 77.6 (1) 51.82 (4) 11.17 (2)
Nagaland 67.11 (5) 22.96 (4) 9.85 (6) 70.0 (5) 35.94 (8) 6.80 (6)
Sikkim 69.68 (3) 17.15 (6) 15.27 (5) 74.9 (2) 41.30 (7) 6.72 (7)
Tripura 73.66 (2) 19.28 (5) 16.06 (3) 73.2 (3) 51.95 (3) 4.14 (8)
All-India 65.20 20.85 21.61 62.1 39.58 5.04
Source: Planning Commission, Government of India 2002.
Table 8.3
Health Status of the Population
Under 5 Mortality Percentage of
States IMR Rates Women with Anaemia
Arunachal Praesh 63.1 98.1 62.5
Assam 69.5 89.5 69.7
Manipur 37.0 56.1 28.9
Meghalaya 89.0 122.0 63.3
Mizoram 37.0 54.7 48.0
Nagaland 42.1 63.8 38.4
Sikkim 43.9 71.0 61.1
Tripura – – 59.4
All India 67.6 94.9 51.8
Source: National Family Health Survey-II.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND
GENDER RELATIONS
It is extremely difficult to make generalisations regarding the position of
women in Arunachal Pradesh and the changes in this, primarily because
of two reasons: first, given the extraordinary diversity in the socio-economic
conditions, institutional arrangements and cultural ethos of the women