The level of literacy in rural and urban (slum) families in India is always affected due to seasonal migration. UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Reports- 2019 Let us take a look at how the Global Education Monitoring Report-2019 has highlighted the educational challenges in inter-state migration.
According to the survey report, in India in 2019, 10.7 million children aged 6 to 14 years lived in slums due to seasonal migration. The survey report found that 28% of the youth in the age group of 15 to 19 living in these settlements are illiterate, and 18% of the youth in the same age group have not even completed their primary education. Overall, UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Reports-2019 says that about 80% of the migrant workers in the seven major cities of India have no source of education near their workplaces, or there is a lack of access to education. The workplace of these workers keeps changing every year, due to which providing education to their children is proving to be a challenge. Therefore, the children of migrant workers are away from the main source of education or education is not available to them, due to which the future of the children is becoming dark.

• India's literacy rate has increased six times since the end of British rule. The literacy rate was 12% in 2011 which has now increased to 74% in 2022. Despite this, India is the country with the largest population of illiterate people in the world.
• Even today, the highest number of women are illiterate in the state of Bihar. In 2011, the literacy rate of women in Bihar was 38%.
• India ranks 123rd out of 135 countries in terms of female literacy rate.
• India ranks fourth/ at B position in the South Asia region.
• In India, 6 million children are still out of school.
• India is the country with 37% of the world's population of illiterate adults. Whose number is 287 million.