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State Focus Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Report Education & Exams Reports & Indices

Literacy of 88.06 per cent in Daman and a sex ratio of 1,031 in Diu

These figures sit behind the education and health notices the Union Territory Administration published in October 2026, including an interview notice from Government College, Daman.
The Administration's own profile of the Union Territory gives Daman a literacy rate of 88.06 per cent, Diu 83.46 per cent and Dadra and Nagar Haveli 76.2 per cent, with female literacy in Dadra and Nagar Haveli at 64.3 per cent.
The sex ratio is 1,031 in Diu, 774 in Dadra and Nagar Haveli and 534 in Daman.
The child sex ratio is 926 in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, 897 in Daman and 929 in Diu.
Most of these population and literacy figures are drawn from the 2011 Census.
The profile lists Gujarati, Marathi, Portuguese and Hindi for all three districts, with Varli and Kokni additionally for Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

Literacy, Daman: 88.06% Literacy, Diu: 83.46% Literacy, Dadra and Nagar Haveli: 76.2% Sex ratio, Diu: 1,031
Why it matters for exams: A sex ratio above 1,000 in one district and far below it in the next, within one small Union Territory, is exactly the contrast an examiner uses.
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In plain words

Sex ratio Sex ratio — The number of females per thousand males in a population.

Child sex ratio Child sex ratio — The number of girls per thousand boys in the age group 0 to 6 years.

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