Extremely sorry for the delay in replying.

Uva province, as you see from above graph, hardly a star performer. In fact, it outperforms only North Central province. According to Statistics Dept PC literacy in Uva has increased from a little more than 5% in 2004 to 10% in 2007. The same report says only about 23% in Uva are aware about computers while in the Western province this percentage is little below 50%.

The percentage that can use minimum of two software packages is 5% in Uva and 16% in Western.

District-wise Moneragala in Uva province is one of the three provinces with the lowest PC literacy. (The other two are Polonnaruwa and Nuwara Eliya)

Hope this gives a rough picture about Uva province. I am sorry they do not provide separate for students.

@Nalin,

Interesting abstract. What you should focus more is the functional literacy than mere literacy. My guess in Sri Lanka functional literacy (ability to do some real work, not merely recognise letters) is low. Not many use their knowledge to any work. For example, according to Statistics Dept more than 60% of the population (5-69 years) knows nothing about computers. How can that be? Don’t newspapers publish enough about them? So the only possible reason is these people do not read even newspapers.

What over 90% literacy rate brings if 60% does not even read newspapers?

UNDERSTANDING THE CONFLICT BETWEEN LITERACY RATE AND COMPUTER LITERACY RATE IN SRI LANKA

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has drafted the following definition: “Literacy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts. Literacy involves a continuum of learning to enable an individual to achieve his or her goals, to develop his or her knowledge and potential, and to participate fully in the wider society.” Computer literacy is the knowledge and ability to use computers and technology efficiently. Computer literacy can also refer to the comfort level someone has with using computer programs and other applications that are associated with computers. Another valuable component of computer literacy knows how computers work and operate. Now, having basic computer skills is a significant asset in the developed countries.
The objectives of this study to identify the relationship between literacy rate and computer literacy rate in Sri Lanka. Content method and focus group techniques has been conducted .According to the statistics Computer literacy rate in Sri Lanka is only 10%.But Literacy rate is over 90%.This is exceptional in the world. In India literacy rate is 61 % but computer literacy rate is 6%.In America 99% of the population has the literacy skill and their computer literacy level also more than 70%.But in Sri Lanka Though the literacy rate is high there is a considerable Low rate in computer literacy rate. This is an exceptional case once comparing these rates. According to focus group study most of the respondents in the view that no clear IT policy, political influences as well as infrastructure problems as the reasons for this.

P.S.This is exceptional and i think researchable issue.

As a recipient of a monthly allowance of Rs. 200 from govt to purchase milk for your kid (page 18) you should not be so sarcastic about ‘ahinda’ Chintanaya.