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1.5.3. Education Index

The Education Index, defined as the arithmetic mean of adjusted mean years of schooling index and literacy rate index, has seen a very impressive improvement for all states. Education Index for India has improved by 28 per cent between 1999 and 2000 and 2007–8, that is, much more than the Income Index.


 

Figure 6. Education Index across states