❖ The School Education department has identified over six lakh illiterate people over the age of 15 across Tamil Nadu.

❖ It has begun classes to provide basic literacy education for them this year under the New India Literary Programme (NILP) or Puthiya Bharatha Ezhutharivu Thittam 2022-2027.

❖ Krishnagiri district has recorded the maximum number of illiterates at 61,622.

 ❖ The department plans to strategically take steps to declare districts with over 90% literacy as 100% literate districts soon.

❖ Thoothukudi, Kanyakumari and nine others district’s literacy rate is about 94- 98%.