India, Jan. 28 -- Around 82.2 per cent of children aged 14-16 in India know how to use a smartphone, but only 57 per cent of them use it for activities related to education, according to the Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) or ASER 2024 released today, January 28, 2025.

Seventy-six per cent of the surveyed children said that they had used it for social media, according to the report.

This time, the surveyors reached out to 6,49,491 children in 17,997 villages in the country.

In a press release, Pratham Education Foundation, which facilitated the nationwide household survey, said this was the first time ASER included a section on digital literacy focusing on children in the 14-16 years age group.

According to the report, acces...