India's literacy rate is 64 percent. But studies have shown that a number of those counted as literate can barely read or write.

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Pause in the library to check out the books the average prisoner read at a rate of 75 to 100 per year - though none of the books could have references to crime, violence or sex.

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According to the official definition, the literacy rate is that percentage of the population ten years and above which is able to read and write in any language.

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