Only 30% of rural population in Karnataka has completed secondary education: Report

The survey findings for Karnataka bespeak that the authorities excels successful fiscal inclusion and municipality acquisition but struggles with agrarian acquisition and healthcare, highlighting a stark rural-urban divide. For instance, municipality centres, peculiarly Bengaluru, are good known for their acquisition infrastructure. The study shows that 56.6 per cent of the state’s municipality colonisation aged 25 and supra has received astatine slightest immoderate secondary education, surpassing the nationalist average.

Moreover, the authorities shows promising literacy rates among its younger population. Approximately 97.8 per cent of males and 95.9 per cent of females aged 15-24 tin work and constitute elemental statements with understanding, indicating that literacy levels are connected par with nationalist standards. This is mostly attributed to a absorption connected aboriginal puerility education, combined with amended entree to secondary and tertiary acquisition successful municipality centres.

Karnataka has besides performed good successful fiscal inclusion, with astir 94.6 per cent of its colonisation aged 18 years and supra having a slope relationship oregon entree to a mobile wealth provider, comparable to the nationalist average. However, lone 67.2 per cent of agrarian residents tin entree and usage the internet, compared to 89 per cent successful municipality areas.

The study besides highlights that Karnataka’s out-of-pocket aesculapian expenditures, some for hospitalisation and non-hospitalised treatment, are considerably precocious for its agrarian population, indicating a deficiency of capable nationalist healthcare infrastructure. Rural households walk an mean of Rs 4,129 connected hospitalisation annually, portion municipality households walk Rs 5,290—almost successful enactment with the nationalist average.

The survey underscores a increasing disagreement successful Karnataka’s integer literacy, with municipality areas faring importantly amended than agrarian regions. In municipality areas, 89 per cent of the colonisation tin usage the internet, portion this fig drops to 67.2 per cent successful agrarian areas. This disparity is further reflected successful ICT skills, with lone 72.7 per cent of the agrarian younker (aged 15-24) reporting proficiency successful sending emails with attachments, compared to 83.6 per cent successful municipality areas.