India, May 30 -- Goa has become the second state in India to be officially declared fully literate under the ULLAS (Understanding Lifelong Learning for All in Society) initiative.

"Our sustained collective efforts to strengthen the education sector with new advancements, the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 have yielded results," chief minister Pramod Sawant said on Friday, commemorating the state's 39th Statehood Day.

Goa, which was elevated from a union territory (UT) to a state in 1987, became the second state after Mizoram to be declared a fully functionally literate state.

Joint secretary of India's education ministry Archana Awasthi said that Goa has met the criteria to be declared a state that is fully literate. Under the Ce...