 Despite these hurdles, 120 million receive free lunches in Indian schools every day, making it the largest school meal program in the world.Although the decadal rise from 2001–11 was only 6.7% (60.4% in 2001 to 67.7% in 2011) Andhra Pradesh had the biggest percentage decadal (1991–2001) increase in the literacy of all Indian states, from about 38% to about 61%, a leapfrog that has been termed "spectacular" by some observers.Aggressive state government action, in the form of the District Primary Education Programme (Andhra Pradesh), the Shiksha Karmi initiative and the Lok Jumbish program are credited with the rapid improvement.