For first time, percentage of rural kids not enrolled in school under 2%
19 Jan 2023
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Business Standard - Despite two years of learning loss due to the Covid-19 pandemic, school education in rural India showed a healthy recovery in 2022, the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) report released on Wednesday showed. In 2022, for the first time, the proportion of children in rural India not enrolled in schools fell below 2 per cent in 2022 and was 1.6 per cent. Read more
The report said that the proportion of children enrolled in government schools rose from 65.6% in 2018 to 72.9% in 2022. It was 64.9% in 2014. The proportion of those not enrolled had risen sharply from 2.8% in 2018 to 4.6% in 2020. It came down to 1.6% in 2022.
The ASER 2022 figures show that the increase in out of school numbers during 2020-21 was a temporary phenomenon caused by uncertainty and possibly a lag in recording enrollments.
According to ASER 2022, the proportion of not currently enrolled 6 to 14 years old children is down to 1.6%, almost half of what was observed in 2018 and the lowest we have seen in the decade since the Right to Education Act came into effect.
The highest enrollment was recorded in the age group of 7 to 10 years at 99%, followed by the age group of 11 to 14 years at 98.2%.
In the age group of 15 to 16 years, the proportion of children enrolled in schools was 92.5%, the lowest among all the categories, but it was a major improvement compared to previous years. The non enrollment was down from 16.1% in 2010 to 7.5% in 2022.
Where there was a rise in admissions in government schools, enrollments in private schools for children aged 6 to 14 years fell in almost every state between 2018 and 2022. It rose in only 3 states - Assam, Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram.
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