SPATIAL DICHOTOMY OF LITERACY IN RELATION WITH SOCIO-ECONOMIC ATTRIBUTE: A CASE STUDY OF HOOGHLY DISTRICT

Education in its general sense is a form of learning in which knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next. Literacy being a part of education is the key to socio-economic progress as well as human resource development. The present work aimed at assessing the spatial variation in terms of literacy and their related problems among the blocks of Hooghly District. The study reveals that the area with higher socio-economic prospect showing higher literacy rate and are ignorant to educational attributes related with selected parameters among various pockets of the district.