CCSAP Report - Ministry of Home Affairs

The results are the same if instead of youth literacy, the achievements are
compared for average years of schooling. In this instance, the Telangana
average of 6.9 years is the highest among all the regions in 2007/8, with the
state average being 6.6 years (Table 7D). Relative educational attainment (girls
to boys) again comes out the best for Telangana,89 percent – the state average
is 86 percent.
7.6.05 Telangana socio- cultural groups
Due to the presence of very small sample sizes in some cases, data are reported
below for individual categories within Telangana but are not reported in the
tables. These data should be treated with extreme caution and are only
indicative.
SCs and STs
There is considerable improvement in youth literacy for all socio-economic groups
in Telangana. Tribals here have shown even better improvements in youth
literacy than their SC counterparts, twice that of the state average and much
higher than coastal tribals. Similarly, in improvements in percentage change in
years of education, they have done almost as well as the SCs and much better
than the other groups. They are also better off than the tribals in coastal Andhra.
However, the ratio of girl to boy youth literacy shows the sharpest and extra
large improvement for the STs. While the state average is an increase of 40
percent between 1983 and 2007/8, the ST average is 277 percent for girl to boy
literacy and 224 percent according to the years of education. Telangana ST girls
were way behind their male counterparts in 1983 – only 15 girls were literate
compared to 100 ST boys. In 2007/8, 61 Telangana ST girls are literate
compared to 100 ST boys.
Muslims
The Muslims in Telangana, contrary to common belief, are doing well on
consumption (improvement by 76%) and poverty reduction levels (33 points).
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