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The Ministry of Education has released a detailed report on Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) 2020-21.
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What are the key findings of UDISE+ 2020-21?
Students in schools: Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) which measures the general level of participation has improved in 2020-21 at all levels of school education compared to 2019-20.
– Level wise GER in 2020-21 as compared to 2019-20 are: 92.2% from 89.7% in upper primary, 99.1 % from 97.8% in elementary, 79.8% from 77.9% in secondary and 53.8% from 51.4% in higher secondary respectively.
Teachers in Schools: In 2020-21 the Pupil-Teacher Ratio (PTR) stood at 26 for primary, 19 for upper primary, 18 for secondary and 26 for higher secondary showing an improvement since 2018-19.
Data on Girls: In 2020-21, over 12.2 crore girls are enrolled in primary to higher secondary, showing an increase of 11.8 lakh girls compared to the enrolment of girls in 2019-20.
School Infrastructure: Now 84% of the total schools have functional electricity facilities in comparison with 73.85% in 2018-19, showing a remarkable improvement of 10.15% during the period.
– Percentage of schools with functional drinking water has increased to 95.2 % in 2020-21 from 93.7 % in 2019-20.
– Percentage of the school with a functional girl’s toilet facility has increased to 93.91 % in 2020-21 in comparison with 93.2 % in 2019-20 by adding the facility in additional 11,933 schools during the year.
– Number of schools having functional computers increased to 6 lakh in 2020-21 from 5.5 lakh in 2019-20.
– Number of schools having internet facilities increased to 3.7 lakh in 2020-21 from 3.36 lakh in 2019-20, with an increase of 2.6%.
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on enrolment: During 2020-21, 39.7 lakh students of government-aided, private school students shifted to Government schools.
Source: This post is based on the article “Ministry of Education to release a detailed Report on Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) 2020-21” published in PIB on 15th Mar 2022.
