Universal Primary Education Plan Perspective & Annual Work Plan Hooghly

Abstract

The district has the literacy rate of 75.59% with 83.05% of the males and 67.72% females being literate (2001 census). The district has 2874 schools with 10,475 teachers. For administrative ease in the case of monitoring education related works the district is divided into units called circles. There are 43 such circles each having one inspector of schools to oversee the working of the schools falling in the circle. The total number of students in the district is 4,37,693. The number of male students is more than the female students in all categories other-than minorities and the OBCs. The circles having number of students approximately equal to or more than 15,000 are Sadar, Serampur, Mogra, Chanditala and Chanditala north, Arambagh and Jangipara.