Question

11. Which of the following statements about literacy is not true?
A. Social education was integrated with community development programme in the
second five-year plan.
B. Child marriage does not affect literacy of children.
C. Literacy helps women to attain higher status in life.
D. Right to Education Act emphasises on free and compulsory education for children
between the age of 6 - 14 years in India.​

Answer 1

Answer:

b

Explanation:

Answer 2

(b). Child marriage does not affect the literacy of children, which is not true about literacy.

• Child marriage means that the children are most likely to drop out of school for the marriage.
• Child marriage also leads to population growth and entrenched poverty as the children marrying at a young age do not have any knowledge.
• One more year of early marriage reduces the probability of literacy by 7.5% points and it reduces the level of secondary education by 9.6%.