Q. The first district to attain total literacy :
Solution:
Ernakulam District in Kerala was the first district to become fully literate (Feb 1990).
On 4th of February 1990, the then Prime Minister Shri V P Singh declared Ernakulam as the first total literate district in India. State wide literacy survey was conducted on 8th of April 1990 and found that 28.52 lakhs people were illiterate.
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