With 96.2 per cent literacy, Kerala has once again emerged as the most literate state in the country, while Andhra Pradesh featured at the bottom with a rate of 66.4 per cent, showed a report based on National Statistical Office (NSO) survey.

The report on ''Household Social Consumption: Education in India as part of 75th round of National Sample Survey - from July 2017 to June 2018'' provides for state-wise detail of literacy rate among the persons aged seven years and above.