The overall literacy rate in Sancharak district is 12%, however, while nearly one in five (18%) of men are literate this is true for just over one in twenty (6%) women. In the population aged between 15 and 24 the men have a slightly lower literacy rate (17.7%), and so do women (4.8%).
On average 29% of children between 6 and 13 are enrolled in school, however the figure is around one-third of boys (30%) and one-sixth of girls (15%).[2][5]
Transport Infrastructure
The transport infrastructure in Sancharak is not well developed with only 18.2% of roads in the
district able to take car traffic in all seasons, and two-thirds (65%) able to take car traffic in some seasons. In one-sixth (16.8%) of the province there are no roads at all.[2]
^United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service; United States. Joint Publications Research Service (1983). Near East/South Asia report. Foreign Broadcast Information Service.