1. An Atlas on Literacy Situation in the Districts of Madhya Pradesh (MP), 2011 A Quick Review of the Decadal (2010-2011) Achievement of Literacy in the State

2. Introduction It is the proven fact that literacy is the key to the socio-economic development of the country. The Government of India, aims to achieve the 85% literacy by the end of the XIth five year plan (2007-2012) in the country across all states of India. This atlas, provides the landscape view of the literacy situation in the second largest state (geographically) Madhya Pradesh divided into 50 districts and located in the heart of the country. The atlas has been prepared by using the data from the latest Census of India (preliminary report) 2011. The atlas contains many maps, enlightening strategic information by unfolding the achievements, gaps and the districts requiring attention with priority for interventions so that the low performing areas can keep pace with other areas of the state for development. The maps are self-explanatory and easily interpretable and can be used by the policy makers, administrators, programme implementers, UN agencies and other interested organizations and individuals working in the field of social development in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India.

3. To provide strategic and/or actionable information from Census 2011 in ready-to-use form to the development professionals for evidence- based planning and decision-making by further analysis of the information generated by Census of India (Preliminary Report) 2011 through: 1.Measuring the progress by the state made during the decade 2001-2011 2.Identifying the districts with extreme performance 3.Highlighting the districts requiring attention with high priority for development of literacy 4.Identifying the clusters (if any) with geographical contiguity of most illiterate population 5.Supporting development partners in usage of data 6.Exploring advance use of DevInfo technology in generating strategic information Specific Objectives

4. Section 1 Background of Madhya Pradesh

5. Location of Madhya Pradesh in India Total number of sub-nationals (states & union territories) in the country: 35

6. Geographical Location of Districts of MP in the State Total number of districts: 50, Census of India 2011

7. A Basic Social Profile of Madhya Pradesh

8. Section 2 Literacy Development in Districts

9. Districts with change in literacy rate in a decade (2001-2011) Min: 31.10 percent Max: 77.73 percent Range: 46.63 point percent Min: 37.22percent Max: 82.47 percent Range: 45.25 point percent Note: Map Legend - Value in bracket is the number of districts

10. A comparative analysis of literacy rate w.r.t. state and national average, 2011 National average: 74.04 State average: 70.63 Note: Map Legend - Value in bracket is the number of districts

11. Five districts with highest increase (>10%) of literacy, 2011 Increase : Max: 13.11 point percent Min: -00.94 point percent Note: Map Legend - Value in bracket is the number of districts

12. Districts with lowest increase(<1%)/decrease of literacy, 2011 Decrease in literacy Increase : Max: 13.11 point percent Min: -00.94 point percent Note: Map Legend - Value in bracket is the number of districts

13. Section 3 Concentration of Illiterates

14. Districts with varying size of illiterate population, 2011 Note: Map Legend - Value in bracket is the number of districts Inter District Illiteracy Index: 33.40 % (2011)

15. Districts with proportional illiterate population, 2011 Note: Map Legend - Value in bracket is the number of districts

16. Districts with extreme number of illiterate population, 2011 Note: Map Legend - Value in bracket is the number of districts

17. Cluster of 3 districts with highest illiterate population, 2011 A cluster of districts with large number of illiterates (1852109) in the state Note: Map Legend - Value in bracket is the number of districts

18. Binomial distribution of districts according to the amount of illiterate population, 2001 Note: Map Legend - Value in bracket is the number of districts

19. Districts with extreme 40 percent illiterate population, 2011

20. Districts with extreme 30 percent illiterate population, 2011

21. Districts with extreme 20 percent illiterate population, 2011

22. Districts with extreme 10 percent illiterate population, 2011

23. Section 4 Level of Disparity in Literacy

24. Districts with extreme level of gap-in-literacy rate by gender, 2011 Highest Lowest Gap in literacy rate by gender Mini. 10.87 point percent Max: 28.67 point percent

25. Districts with extreme level of gap-in-literacy rate by geographic location (rural & urban), 2011 Highest Lowest Gap in literacy rate by location Mini. 04.55 point percent Max: 47.83 point percent

26. Section 5 Summary With Closing Note

27. Summary of Main Observations

28. Closing Note We hope that the professionals working in the area of development sector will find the atlas useful for informed decision making and designing/fine tuning the interventions in the districts requiring comparatively higher attention. The technical team will welcome the feedback from the users and would appreciate if they could share their suggestions, comments to the author through the email (kkgaur@devinfo.info). The valuable feedback will be very helpful to strengthen the atlas to make it more useful.