Based on Census figures, all India Scheduled Tribe (ST) literacy rate has increased from 47.1% in 2001 to 59.0% in 2011. ST literacy rate is lower by about 14 percentage points as compared to overall literacy rate (73%) in 2011. However, this gap has narrowed from 22.6 percentage points in 1991 and 17.7 percentage points […]
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Ministry of Home Affairs has not granted Citizenship to Chakmas: Kiren Rijiju
Kiren Rijiju, Minister of State for Home Affairs, Govt of India and an MP from Arunachal Pradesh has taken to Facebook to tell people of Arunachal Pradesh that Chakmas have not been given any citizenship. Chakmas are Buddhists from Bangladesh and Myanmar who have come to India and have settled in many states of North East […]