SRINAGAR, Sept. 6 -- Jammu and Kashmir has been declared a fully literate Union Territory under the ULLAS-Nav Bharat Saaksharta Karyakram after achieving a literacy rate of 98.43 per cent, with the UT securing 10th position nationally, Education Minister Sakeena Masood Itoo said on Saturday.
Addressing a Teachers' Day function at SKICC Srinagar, Itoo described the achievement as a historic milestone and a matter of immense pride for the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Under Government of India norms, a literacy rate above 95 per cent is treated as 100 per cent for declaring an area fully literate.
The Minister said J&K had become the biggest State/UT to achieve the milestone, crediting teachers, volunteers, learners, field functionaries, edu...