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UDISE+ 2020-21 Report

The Ministry of Education released a detailed report on Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) 2020-21 on school education of India in March 2022.

Developed by:

The UDISE+ system of online data collection from the schools was developed by Department of School Education & Literacy in the year 2018-19.

Aim:

It aims to overcome the issues related to erstwhile practice of manual data filling in paper format and subsequent feeding on computer at the block or district level in the UDISE data collection system since 2012-13.

Highlights of UDISE+ 2020-21 Report:

Students and Teachers in schools:
  • In 2020-21 total students enrolled in school education from primary to higher secondary stood at 25.38 crore. There is an increase of 28.32 lakh enrolments as compared to the 25.10 crore enrolment in 2019-20.
  • Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) which measure the general level of participation has improved in 2020-21 at all levels of school education compared to 2019-20.
  • 96.96 lakh teachers are engaged in school education during 2020-21. This is higher by about 8800 in comparison with number of teacher in school education in 2019-20.
  • 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.
  • 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.
Non-teaching staffs:
  • Total non-teaching staffs during 2020-21 stood at 15.8 lakh as compared to 12.37 lakhs in 2018-19.
School Infrastructure:
  • Schools with functional electricity have made impressive progress during 2020-21 with net addition of 57,799 schools provided electricity.
  • Percentage of the schools with functional drinking water has increased to 95.2 % in 2020-21 from 93.7 % in 2019-20.
  • Percentage of the school with functional girl’s toilet facility has increased to 93.91 % in 2020-21 in comparison with 93.2 % in 2019-20.
  • Number of schools having functional computers increased to 6 lakh in 2020-21 from 5.5 lakh in 2019-20 showing an increasing of 3 %.
  • Number of schools having internet facility increased to 3.7 lakh in 2020-21 from 3.36 lakh in 2019-20 with an increase of 2.6%.
Source: PIB

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