Over 95 per cent of households possess a telephone or mobile phone in India, while just 9.9 per cent of households possess a computer including desktop, personal computer and laptops, the Comprehensive Annual Modular Survey 2022-23 released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) on Wednesday showed. The concentration of ownership of computers is with urban households with a 21.6 per cent share, while rural households have a 4.2 per cent share. Delhi leads among states/UTs with 27.8 per cent of households owning a computer, followed by Sikkim (26.4 per cent), Mizoram (24.2 per cent), Kerala (22 per cent) and Nagaland (20.2 per cent). 100 per cent of households in Chandigarh posess a mobile phone or telephone, followed by Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and Ladakh with over 99 per cent of households having a telephone or mobile phone. Education Goa, Manipur, Delhi, Puducherry, Lakshadweep, Sikkim and Kerala are among the states/union territories in India having persons with the highest mean years of schooling in formal education, the Survey said. At all-India level, persons aged 15 years and above spend 8.4 mean years in schooling in formal education - an indicator for educational attainment levels in the country. For the mean years of schooling in formal education, Goa leads among states/UTs with 12.1 mean years of schooling in formal education for persons aged 15 years and above, with females having 11.1 years of schooling and males having 13 years. Goa is followed by Manipur (11.7), Delhi (11.5), Puducherry (11.4), Lakshadweep (11.1), Sikkim (11.0), Kerala (10.8), Mizoram (10.5), Andaman & Nicobar Islands (10.3) and Nagaland (10.3). The mean years of schooling is calculated as the weighted average of the number of years spent in formal education (excluding repeated years). It includes all courses and educational levels, including pre-primary education, regardless of whether they were completed or not. For instance, if a course has a duration of three years and a person attended two years only, then while calculating mean years of schooling, two years was considered. Arunachal Pradesh clocked the lowest mean years of schooling of 7.2. The other states/UTs that have recorded a lower number of mean years of schooling than the all-India level include Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan with 7.3 mean years of schooling each, along with Odisha (7.6) and Uttar Pradesh (7.7). The report also showed that 36.5 per cent of primary school students aged 6-10 years in urban areas study in government schools, while nearly 80 per cent of primary school students are enrolled in government schools in rural parts of India. Around 96.9 percent of persons aged 15-24 years (97.8 per cent males and 95.9 per cent females) are able to read and write simple statements with understanding and are also able to perform simple arithmetic calculations, it said. 25.6 per cent of youth (8 per cent males and 44.6 per cent females) reported to be not in education, employment, or training, for the age group 15-29 years, the report said. About 35.5 per cent of youth was engaged in formal and non-formal education and training in the previous 12 months, it said.
