Editing Haryana (section)

==Education==

=== Literacy ===

The literacy rate in Haryana has seen an upward trend and is 76.64 per cent as per the 2011 population census. Male literacy stands at 85.38%, while female literacy is at 66.67%. In 2001, the literacy rate in Haryana stood at 67.91%, of which males and females were 78.49% and 55.73% literate respectively.<ref>{{citation|url=http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/data_files/india/Final_PPT_2011_chapter6.pdf|title=Census 2011, Chapter 6 (State of Literacy)|pages=114–117|access-date=17 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706191931/http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/data_files/india/Final_PPT_2011_chapter6.pdf|archive-date=6 July 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> {{As of|2013}}, [[Gurgaon]] city had the highest literacy rate in Haryana at 86.30%  followed by [[Panchkula]] at 81.9% and [[Ambala]] at 81.7%.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/in-haryana-gurgaon-tops-literacy-rate-but-has-worst-sex-ratio/1119373/#sthash.pBWugHfA.dpuf |title=In Haryana, Gurgaon tops literacy rate but has worst sex ratio |work=The Indian Express|date=23 May 2013 |access-date=3 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607143725/http://www.indianexpress.com/news/in-haryana-gurgaon-tops-literacy-rate-but-has-worst-sex-ratio/1119373#sthash.pBWugHfA.dpuf |archive-date=7 June 2013 |url-status=live  }}</ref> In terms of districts, {{as of|2012|lc=y}}, [[Rewari]] had the highest literacy rate in Haryana at 74%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; male literacy was 79% and female literacy was 67%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ijrsr.com/September2012/12.pdf |title=Spatio-temporal Pattern of Literacy in Haryana |access-date=15 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140524023017/http://www.ijrsr.com/September2012/12.pdf |archive-date=24 May 2014 }}</ref> In 2011, Haryana's urban literacy rate stood at 84.98%, marking a notable rise from 79.92% in 2001. Similarly, the rural literacy rate in the state experienced an improvement, reaching 68.91% in 2011 compared to 58.74% in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Haryana Population 2022 {{!}} Sex Ratio & Literacy rate 2024 |url=https://www.census2011.co.in/census/state/haryana.html |access-date=4 April 2024 |website=www.census2011.co.in |archive-date=4 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240404020031/https://www.census2011.co.in/census/state/haryana.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Schools ===
[[Haryana Board of School Education]], established in September 1969 and shifted to [[Bhiwani]] in 1981, conducts public examinations at middle, matriculation, and senior secondary levels twice a year. Over 700,000 candidates attend annual examinations in February and March; 150,000 attend supplementary examinations each November. The Board also conducts examinations for Haryana Open School at senior and senior secondary levels twice a year.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.bseh.org.in/history|title=History|publisher=[[Haryana Board of School Education]]|access-date=23 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224053220/http://www.bseh.org.in/history/|archive-date=24 December 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> The Haryana government provides free education to women up to the [[bachelor's degree]] level.

In 2015–2016, there were nearly 20,000 schools, including 10,100 state government schools (36 Aarohi Schools, 11 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas, 21 Model Sanskriti Schools, 8,744 government primary school, 3386 government middle school, 1,284 government high school and 1,967 government senior secondary schools),<ref name=harsch4>{{cite web|url=http://hryedumis.gov.in/statistics/reports|title=Management Information System - Reports|website=hryedumis.gov.in|access-date=4 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214061251/http://hryedumis.gov.in/statistics/reports|archive-date=14 December 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> 7,635 private schools (200 aided,<ref name=harsch1>{{cite web |url=http://www.schooleducationharyana.gov.in/downloads_pdf/stat/AidedSchool_AsOn09072014.pdf |title=Haryana Education stats: aided private schools, 2015-2016 |access-date=4 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011005518/http://www.schooleducationharyana.gov.in/downloads_pdf/stat/AidedSchool_AsOn09072014.pdf |archive-date=11 October 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 6,612 recognised unaided,<ref name=harsch2>{{cite web|url=http://www.schooleducationharyana.gov.in/downloads_pdf/stat/ListofPrivateRecognized16122016.pdf|title=Haryana Education stats: Recognized unaided schools 2015-2016|access-date=4 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171031023229/http://www.schooleducationharyana.gov.in/downloads_pdf/stat/ListofPrivateRecognized16122016.pdf|archive-date=31 October 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> and 821 unrecognised unaided private schools<ref name=harsch3>{{cite web|url=http://www.schooleducationharyana.gov.in/downloads_pdf/stat/ListofPrivateUnrecognized16122016.pdf|title=Haryana Education stats: list of unrecognized unaided schools, 2015-2016|access-date=4 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026051114/http://www.schooleducationharyana.gov.in/downloads_pdf/stat/ListofPrivateUnrecognized16122016.pdf|archive-date=26 October 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>) and several hundred other central government and private schools such as [[Kendriya Vidyalaya]], [[Indian Army Public Schools]], [[Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya]] and [[D.A.V. College Managing Committee|DAV schools]] affiliated to central government's [[Central Board of Secondary Education|CBSE]] and [[Indian Certificate of Secondary Education|ICSE]] school boards.

=== Universities and higher education ===
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{{See also|List of institutions of higher education in Haryana}}
Haryana has 48 universities and 1,038 colleges,<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/a-first-haryana-has-more-women-than-men-pursuing-higher-education/837137.html|title=A first: Haryana has more women than men pursuing higher education|last=Thakur|first=Bhartesh Singh|date=23 September 2019|work=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]]|access-date=2 October 2019|archive-date=25 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925164158/https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/a-first-haryana-has-more-women-than-men-pursuing-higher-education/837137.html|url-status=live}}</ref> including 115 government colleges, 88 government-aided colleges and 96 self-finance colleges.<ref name=hareduc1>[https://translate.google.com/translate?&sl=hi&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jagran.com%2Fharyana%2Fmahendragarh-haryana-is-growing-rapidly-in-higher-education-colleges-in-small-states-17374290.html Haryana is growing rapidly in higher education, 299 colleges in small state] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220424220015/https://www-jagran-com.translate.goog/haryana/mahendragarh-haryana-is-growing-rapidly-in-higher-education-colleges-in-small-states-17374290.html?_x_tr_sl=hi&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US |date=24 April 2022 }}, [https://www.jagran.com/haryana/mahendragarh-haryana-is-growing-rapidly-in-higher-education-colleges-in-small-states-17374290.html Jagram] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119234959/https://www.jagran.com/haryana/mahendragarh-haryana-is-growing-rapidly-in-higher-education-colleges-in-small-states-17374290.html |date=19 January 2018 }}, 17 January 2018.</ref> [[Hisar (city)|Hisar]] has three universities: [[Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University]] – Asia's largest agricultural university,<ref name="about hau">{{cite web|url=http://hau.ernet.in/|title=About HAU|publisher=Haryana Agricultural University|access-date=27 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512064952/http://hau.ernet.in/|archive-date=12 May 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology]], [[Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences]]); several national agricultural and veterinary research centres ([[NRC on Equines, Hisar, Haryana|National Research Centre on Equines]]),<ref name="vision 2030">{{cite web|title=Vision 2030|url=http://nrce.nic.in/downloads/NRCE%20Vision%202030.pdf|publisher=National Research Centre on Equines|access-date=7 June 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120913134303/http://www.nrce.nic.in/downloads/NRCE%20Vision%202030.pdf|archive-date=13 September 2012}}</ref> Central Sheep Breeding Farm,<ref name="sheep breeding farm">{{cite web|url=http://dahd.nic.in/dahd/reports/compendium-of-schemes/central-sheep-breeding-farm-hissar-haryana.aspx |title=Central sheep breeding farm |publisher=Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fisheries, GoI |access-date=27 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121122055903/http://dahd.nic.in/dahd/reports/compendium-of-schemes/central-sheep-breeding-farm-hissar-haryana.aspx |archive-date=22 November 2012 }}</ref> National Institute on Pig Breeding and Research,<ref name="ppu">{{cite web|url=http://www.ppu.edu.in/about-hisar.html |title=Climate of Hisar |publisher=PPU |access-date=27 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505132444/http://www.ppu.edu.in/about-hisar.html |archive-date=5 May 2012 }}</ref> Northern Region Farm Machinery Training and Testing Institute<ref name="nrfmtti">{{cite web|url=http://nrfmtti.dacnet.nic.in/|title=About us|publisher=Northern Region Farm Machinery Training and Testing Institute|access-date=27 May 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110916140714/http://nrfmtti.dacnet.nic.in/|archive-date=16 September 2011}}</ref> and Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes (CIRB);<ref name="about cirb">{{cite web|url=http://www.cirb.res.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58&Itemid=1&lang=en|title=About CIRB|publisher=Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes|access-date=27 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120913001100/http://www.cirb.res.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58&Itemid=1&lang=en|archive-date=13 September 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> and more than 20 colleges including [[Maharaja Agrasen Medical College, Agroha]].<ref name="mamc">{{cite web|url=http://mamc.edu.in/|title=Official website|publisher=Maharaja Agrasen Medical College|access-date=27 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426072051/http://mamc.edu.in/|archive-date=26 April 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

Demographically, Haryana has 471,000 women and 457,000 men pursuing post-secondary school higher education. There are more than 18,616 female teachers and 17,061 male teachers in higher education.<ref name=":1" />

[[Union Minister]] [[Ravi Shankar Prasad]] announced on 27 February 2016 that the National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT) would be set up in Kurukshetra to provide computer training to youth and a Software Technology Park of India (STPI) would be set up in [[Panchkula]]'s existing HSIIDC IT Park in Sector 23.<ref name=express>{{citation |title=Under the Digital India initiative: Software Technology Park of India |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/digital-india-digital-india-initiative-software-technology-park-of-india-software-technology-park-in-panchkula-panchkula-news-under-the-digital-india-initiative-software-technology-park-of-india |work=[[The Indian Express]] |date=28 February 2016 |access-date=10 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310222254/http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/digital-india-digital-india-initiative-software-technology-park-of-india-software-technology-park-in-panchkula-panchkula-news-under-the-digital-india-initiative-software-technology-park-of-india/ |archive-date=10 March 2016 |url-status=live  }}</ref> Hindi and English are compulsory languages in schools whereas Punjabi, Sanskrit and Urdu are chosen as optional languages.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM47thReport.pdf|title=National Committee for Linguistic Minorities|access-date=4 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018191624/http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM47thReport.pdf|archive-date=18 October 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>