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Girls Use Smartphones More For Education

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January 31, 2025

ACCESS to smartphones among adolescents aged 14-16 is very high in Odisha but a larger chunk of these youngsters use the device for social media - expectedly so - than for educational activities.

- Diana Sahu @Bhubaneswar

The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER)-2024, conducted by Pratham Foundation, reveals that about 80.9 per cent of teenagers know how to use a smartphone but only 61.7 pc use the device to engage in an educational activity, while 77.6 pc used it for social media.

The survey showed 83.2 pc boys and girls reported presence of a smartphone in their households. However, the state lags behind the national averages in both smartphone ownership and usage capabilities.

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