West Bengal Report-IPAI.pdf - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

1819. Kolkata 6.45 20.28 0.49 16.01It emerges from the above that all the districts in WestBengal were having more than 5% SC population and 10 out of 20districts were having more than 5% ST population while 2unidentified districts viz. Dakshin Dinajpur and DGHC had asmuch as 16.01% and 13.78% ST population respectively, Identifieddistricts like Cooch Behar (0.58%) South 24 Parganas (1.14%) andNorth 24 Parganas (2.23%) had as low as 0.58% to 2.23% of STpopulation while 3 out of 11 identified districts (viz. Bankura,Birbhum and Purulia) were having SC female literacy compositionbelow specified parameter of 10%, 2 districts had SC femaleliteracy marginally below 10%. However, all but in 2 identifieddistricts, ST female literacy rate was below 10% and 1 district had9.03% ST female literacy rate which was marginally lower than thespecified parameter.Out of 9 unidentified districts, SC female literacy rate for Idistrict (Dakshin Dinajpur) and ST female literacy rate for 4unidentified districts (Murshidabad, DK Dinajpur, Bardhaman andHooghly) were below 10%.Thus it is evident from the tables above that only twoidentified districts fulfilled both the main parameters fixed for