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Literacy and Education: Table 2.4 portrays the literacy and the
educational scenario of Seripura. As the table reveals, the literate (the
post school literate, together with the studying) form about 54 per cent
of the population, which is quite high as compared to the district average
of just 29 per cent. Of the studying population, there are only thirteen
students (about 1.4 per cent) who have crossed the secondary education.
Of theIn, eleven are studying at the higher secondary level. More than 25
per cent of the population, in the age group between 5 and 14 years,
have been already out of the school. Many have dropped out at the
primary and higher primary levels. Most of them again belong to the
lower castes. The reason for drop-out has been mainly for economic
reasons and to look after the younger ones while the mother is out for
wage labour. Of the post school-literates, about a little less than onethirds
(about eight per cent) have hardly completed their primary
education and about half of the literate (about 12.4 per cent) have never
crossed the primary level. There are two graduates from the village who
are working in the near-by town and residing there itself. There is an
engineering graduate who has recently completed his studies. He is
presently doing farming and sericulture activity while looking for a
placement. There is also a research scholar who is pursuing his doctoral
studies at the Annamalai University. Apart from theIn, there is an
engineer working in HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) at Bangalore
and an advocate, based in Bangalore. Both belong to the Scheduled caste
and have settled in Bangalore.
There are a few children who attend the English medium nursery
school located in the nearby village. A few years back, there was a
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