LITERACY STATUS AMONG URBAN POOR IN ANDHRA PRADESH (A STUDY ON VIZAG URBAN SLUMS)

India's education system faces numerous challenges. Successive governments have pledged to Increase spending on education to 6 per cent of GDP, but actual spending has hovered around 4 per cent for last few years. My present study based on secondary data. Deals with urban poor people in the Visakhapatnam city of Andhra Pradesh. In this article argues the linkage between economic factors and low levels of literacy create in urban poor communities in the vizag city urban slums in Andhra Pradesh.