Over 130 million main workforce in the country have education level below matriculation, the government said today.
Citing 2011 Census, Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary informed Lok Sabha that 130.2 million main workers and 43.4 million marginal workers in the country are literate but below matric/secondary level.
Illiterate main workers constitute 28.8 per cent of the total 362.6 million main workers while 19.7 per cent are literate with matriculate/secondary but below graduate level, he said in a written reply in the House.
Those workers who had worked for the major part of the reference period (six months or more) are termed as main workers while those who had not worked for the major part of the reference period (less than six months) are termed as marginal workers.
