{"id":135791,"date":"2021-09-21T18:39:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T13:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=135791"},"modified":"2021-09-22T16:33:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T11:03:15","slug":"is-india-nearing-100-school-enrolment-yes-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/is-india-nearing-100-school-enrolment-yes-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Is India nearing 100% school enrolment? Yes & No"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

The Ministry of Education has recently released the United Information System for Education Plus(UDISE+) 2019-20 report for School Education in India.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Click Here to Read about UDISE+ Report<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What are the key analyses from the report<\/b>?<\/span><\/h5>\n
Enrollment in Primary Education<\/b><\/h5>\n

The total enrolment in schools has increased by 1.6% in 2019-20 compared to 2018-19.<\/span><\/p>\n

But when we compare it with 2012-13 data, the enrollment at the primary level has reduced from 13.5 crores in 2012-13 to 12.2 crores in 2019-20.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The reason for the decline in Gross Enrollment Ratio<\/strong>(GER) is due to the steep decline in enrolment in absolute numbers<\/strong> from 2016-17 onwards.<\/span><\/p>\n

For instance, if we compare the total primary enrolment between 2017-18 and 2019-20, it has come down by over 72 lakh. This should be a matter of concern, especially since this would be even higher now due to Covid.<\/span><\/p>\n

The target of \u200b\u200b100% enrolment ratio<\/b><\/h5>\n

Except for the Primary level of education, all other levels are far from attaining a 100% enrolment ratio.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a steep decline in the dropout rate at the primary level from 4.5% to 1.5%. But the data also shows that 28% of students dropped out<\/strong> while moving from secondary<\/strong> (Grades 9 and 10) to higher secondary level<\/strong> and 8% between elementary and secondary level.<\/span><\/p>\n

Note:<\/b> As per National Education Policy 2020<\/strong><\/a>, Government has a target of achieving 100% gross enrolment at the school education level by 2030.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reduction in Schools<\/b><\/h6>\n

There is a reduction in 43,292 schools. Most of these are Government Schools. <\/span>The reasons for the decline in schools maybe because of the merging of schools. But we do not have any data about the merging of schools.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of the decline in schools are from states such as Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh<\/strong>. These two states with high fertility and large child population make up over 90% of the reduction<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a worrying sign as when schools merge, the distance to school increases for children and this hits girl students the hardest<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<\/span> \u201c<\/b>Is India nearing 100% school enrolment? Yes & No<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in TOI <\/b>on 21st September 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the News? The Ministry of Education has recently released the United Information System for Education Plus(UDISE+) 2019-20 report for School Education in India. Click Here to Read about UDISE+ Report What are the key analyses from the report? Enrollment in Primary Education The total enrolment in schools has increased by 1.6% in 2019-20… Continue reading Is India nearing 100% school enrolment? Yes & No<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[9045,9722,9875],"class_list":["post-135791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-education-school-education","tag-school-closure","tag-school-enrolment","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700777310,"cached_date":1701170497},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}