In 2021-22, school dropout rate at secondary level was higher than national average in seven States
The Hindu
Gujarat, Bihar, Karnataka, Assam and Punjab are among seven States where the school dropout rate at the secondary level was higher than the national average
Gujarat, Bihar, Karnataka, Assam and Punjab are among seven States where the school dropout rate at the secondary level was higher than the national average of 12.6% in 2021-22, according to official data.
This information was collated from the minutes of the Project Approval Board (PAB) meetings held under the Ministry of Education to discuss the implementation of the "Samagra Shiksha" programme for 2023-24.
The meetings with States and Union Territories took place between March and May this year.
The government views dropout as a barrier to achieving the new National Education Policy's aim of 100% Gross Enrolment Rate (GER) at the school level by 2030, according to officials.
The details of the PAB meeting minutes show that the dropout rate at the secondary level in 2021–22 was 20.46% in Bihar, 17.85% in Gujarat, 20.3% in Assam, 16.7% in Andhra Pradesh, 17.2% in Punjab, 21.7% in Meghalaya and 14.6% in Karnataka.
In West Bengal, though the dropout rate has improved substantially from 2020-21 to 2021-22, particularly at the elementary level, it needs to continue taking adequate measures to reduce the dropout rate and improve the retention rate at the secondary level, it was noted in one of the minutes.
There are a lot of out of school children in the Union Territory of Delhi. Details of out of school children mainstreamed should be uploaded on PRABANDH portal, it was stated in one of the documents.
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