World of Industries

In view of the fact that the percentage of literacy in total population is very low ( 36 % acording to 1981 census, as against 29 % in 1971 ) it is very quite natural that the industrila workers also have a very low percentage of literacy. A comission on plan projects ( Mehta comission on literacy ) set up by the government of India reported in 1964 that in five sectors of organised industry ( tea plantation, coal mining, jute, cotton and iron and steel ) more than 71 % of the workers were illiterate and that there have been variation from the region to region and state to state in the same industry. But the fact of the situation is that the extent of illetracy amoung industrial workers is very high.