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Tamil
Nadu enjoys a literacy rate of 73.5% vs all-India 65.4%
(census 2001) |
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Thriving
culture of academic excellence with 25 universities,
252 engineering colleges, 207 polytechnics and 526 IT
institutes. |
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Annual
rollout of 75,000 engineering graduates (more than 35,000
in IT). |
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Ongoing
public-private partnership project for computer science
in all 1200 government higher secondary schools, covering
more than 100,000 students a year. |
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Linguistic
skills covering English and vernacular. |
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Highest density of software professionals in India with
more than 4,00,000 IT professionals (source: United
Nations Industrial Development Organisation report). |

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Attrition
of 8-10% nearly 50% lower than in Mumbai and Delhi. |