What's Inside
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Gloom in the Classroom: The Schooling Crisis in Jharkhand, prepared by Gyan Vigyan Samiti Jharkhand, released in December 2022
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Cries of Anguish (released in March 2022)
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India Needs To Learn -- A Case for Keeping Schools Open (released in January 2022)
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State of Foundational Literacy and Numeracy in India (released on 16th December, 2021)
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Sixteenth Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) 2021 (released on 17th November, 2021)
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A Future at Stake – Guidelines and Principles to Resume and Renew Education (released on 2nd November, 2021)
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2021 State of the Education Report for India: No Teacher, No Class (released in October, 2021)
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Locked Out: Emergency Report on School Education (released on 6th September, 2021)
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Rapid assessment of learning during school closures in the context of COVID-19 (released in May, 2021)
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Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2019-20 for States and Union Territories (released in June, 2021)
Progress in Elementary Education since 1999 Source: RGI; SES, MHRD Growth of Educational Institutions since 1999
Source: SES, MHRD
From the table below, one can decipher that although enrolment of both boys and girls has increased in between 1999-2000 and 2004-2005, yet there exist gender disparities in enrolment. Sex-wise Enrolment by Stages, 1999-2000 to 2003-04 Source: SES, MHRD *Provisional Seminar Report "Right to Education - Actions Now" 19 December 2007, New Delhi by Confederation of Indian Industry show: Access facilities in the upper primary schooling is, however, still an issue as, only 78% of the habitations had such facilities within a radius of 3 Km. In 2002-03. This catered to the need of 86% of the rural population. Nearly, 88,930 new upper primary schools have been opened since 2002-03. However, a gap still remains.
In Madhya Pradesh, only one third of the teachers attend school, in UP, the figure is 20% and in Bihar 25%.
There is a need of more upper primary schools. At the national level, there was one upper primary school for 2.8 primary schools in 2004-05. In 2005-06 this ratio of number of primary to upper primary schools was 2.5:1. To bring the ratio of primary: upper primary school to 2:1 (SSA norm), the additional need for upper primary schools works out to 1,40,000.”
The dropout rates were 15% in 2002-03, which reduced to 13% in 2003-04 and further reduced to 12% in 2004-2005. Although the trend is encouraging, concerted efforts would be needed to ensure further reduction.
In absolute terms, a substantial increase in the number of teachers has been registered since 1999-2000. At the primary stage, there were 19.2 lakh teachers in 1999-2000. This increased to 20.9 lakh in 2003-04. With respect to the upper primary stage, this increased from 12.98 lakh to 16.02 lakh
The government has set up institutions like Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan (SSA), District Primary Education programme (DPEP), National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education (NP-NSPE), the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDMS) and the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Scheme (KGBVS).
According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics: 40% of children are enrolled in pre-primary school 87% of girls and 90% of boys are in primary school 12% of the population of tertiary age are in tertiary education 86% of children complete a full course of primary 10.7% of government spending goes to education 65.2% of adults and 81.3% of youth are literate Education at a glance Youth (15–24 years) literacy rate, 2000–2007*, male 87 Youth (15–24 years) literacy rate, 2000–2007*, female 77 Number per 100 population, 2006, phones 15 Number per 100 population, 2006, Internet users 11 Primary school enrolment ratio 2000–2007*, gross, male 90 Primary school enrolment ratio 2000–2007*, gross, female 87 Primary school attendance ratio 2000–2007*, net, male 85 Primary school attendance ratio 2000–2007*, net, female 81 Secondary school enrolment ratio 2000–2007*, gross, male 59 Secondary school enrolment ratio 2000–2007*, gross, female 49 Secondary school attendance ratio 2000–2007*, net, male 59 Secondary school attendance ratio 2000–2007*, net, female 49 Note: Enrolment ratio means total enrolment in a specific level of education, regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the eligible official school-age population corresponding to the same level of education in a given school year. For the tertiary level, the population used is that of the five-year age group following on from the secondary school leaving
Source: UNICEF, http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/india_statistics.html |
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