in order to help increase the literacy rates, the government announced in 2016 that it had designed text books to teach hindi and mathematics in ho. in 2017 those textbooks were made available on the central government's e-library platform. in a 2016 effort to help promote tribal languages tata steel, a private company, began teaching the ho language on weekends to dropout schoolgirls at a "camp school" in naomundi. as of november 2016, 100 girls were enrolled in the camp school. the company has also ran private ho language centres in east singhbhum, west singhbhum and seraikela-kharsawan districts since 2011. approximately 6000 people have underwent ho language and warang chiti script training in these centres. in 2017 the government of jharkhand announced it would soon begin teaching five- and six-year-old primary school students in their local language in order to help reduce the high dropout rate. among the hos, 19.7% have completed schooling and 3.1% are graduates. the percentage of school-going children in the age group 5 –14 years was 37.6.