The All India literacy rates of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes are 21.38 and 13.35 percent respectively as against 41.20 of non-SC/ST population according to 1981 census.

The literacy rates of women for the above categories are 10.93, 8.04 and 29.43 percent respectively. The proportion of enrolment of SC/ST children continues to be much less than their population proportion and the drop­out rate continues to be very high at all levels of education; the problem is more severe in case of girls of these communities.