G iving details, the survey said, there has been a significant rise in enrolment of students in higher education from 49.25 lakh in 1990-91 to 169.75 lakh in 2010-11.

Similarly, gross enrolment ratio in class I-VIII has risen from 93.54 in 2004-5 to 104.3 in 2010-11.

"Enactment of the Right to Education and programmes like the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan could also have contributed to this," the survey said.

An inter-state comparison shows that the unemployment rate per 1,000 people was the lowest in Gujarat where just 18 persons were unemployed and the highest in Kerala and Bihar where as many as 73 were unemployed in urban areas.



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