About the International Literacy Day 

International Literacy Day was celebrated on 8th September. It was started in 1996. The purpose of celebrating the day was to enable literacy across the work. The year 2009-10 was also declared as the Literacy Decade. In the formerly published census by the NSO (National Statistical Office), India has expressed remarkable development in its literacy rates in rural and urban areas. While Kerala has long sustained its leading position in the duration of literacy rates. Delhi has also indicated a remarkable development in its literacy rate. Delhi has a literacy rate of 88.7 per cent. It stands the second position in the literacy rate, which Uttarakhand followed has a literacy rate of 87.6, and Himachal Pradesh has a literacy rate of 86.6 per cent. The state-wise literacy rate as per the Household Social Consumption, Education' report.