FEMALE LITERACY STATUS-URBAN COMMUNITIES IN ANDHRA PRADESH

Abstract

Women Education in India has also been a major preoccupation of both the government and civil society as educated women can play a very important role in the development of the country. Education is milestone of women empowerment because it  responds to the challenges, to confront their traditional role and change their life. The low level of literacy within the schedule communities in traditionally explained in the terms of the conservative value characterizing urban slums society. My present study based on a field survey of slum dwellers in Visakhapatnam city and this article argues that economic factors causes for low levels of literacy create in urban slums communities in the vizag city of Andhra Pradesh.