Now the standard of education in Odisha is very high.

[TUSAR_PADHI]

Now the standard of education in Odisha is very high. So, students from all over India are coming to Odisha for higher studies. The educational institutions like Xavier Institute of Business Management, National Institute of Technology-Rourkela Institute of Physics, Utkal Univrsity, , Biju Pattnaik University of Technology, IIMC-Dhenkanal, Kalinga Institute of Technology, S C B Medical College, Cuttack, V S S Medical College & Hospital, Burla and so on dazzle Odisha’s name nationally and internationally in the filed of education.

[s-mohanty]

If this news is true, then we all Odias should be proud of our educational institutions.

[akpani]

Yes this is true to some extents. But even now as per the latest census report, literacy rate of Odisha is just the same as national average. More than half of the Indian states have literacy rates higher than Odisha. This is because of the disparity in development. While the coastal Odisha is developed as compared to other states, the western part is equally undeveloped