Five Northeast States Among India’s Top 10 in Literacy Rankings

According to the 2023–24 Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), five northeastern states rank among India’s top 10 most literate regions. Mizoram leads with a 98.2% literacy rate and was recently declared India’s first fully literate state under the ULLAS initiative. Nagaland (95.7%) is third, Meghalaya (94.2%) fifth, Tripura (93.7%) shares sixth with Chandigarh, and Manipur (92%) is tenth. This highlights the Northeast’s strong educational progress. However, literacy gaps remain in states like Andhra Pradesh (72.6%), Bihar (74.3%), and Madhya Pradesh (75.2%), which report significantly lower literacy rates, indicating uneven educational development across the country.