Literacy rate differs according to the ratios of 68 % male and 71 % female in the fisheries areas and also in inland fishing areas. (SFFL Socio-economic survey 2006) The national average is 91 percent female and 90 percent male. 11 percent in age 10-18 Children do not attend the schools in the coastal districts. Child labour within the family circle is very high due to poverty. This is one cause for the school drop outs. At schools, the facilities are also very rudimentary. The children in the schools are idle at most of the time due to poor attendance of the teachers. No proper desks and chairs for the children. No properly set up vocational training centres are in the coastal districts, except Government technical collages and one or two NGO sector vocational training centres. But these centres also lack basic vocational education facilities.