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Summary findings of UDISE+ 2023-24

Total of 24.8 crore students enrolled in the academic year 2023-24. Spread of enrolments for the year 2023-24 for different levels of education namely, pre-primary, primary, upper primary, secondary, and higher secondary are given in Chart 1 below:

One of the primary goals of the schooling system must be to ensure that children are enrolled in and are attending school. The availability of schools, teachers and students enrolled in different states are presented in Graph below:

Though a large number of primary schools have been established post RTE, the commensurate increase in schools at secondary and higher secondary level have not come up. This poses the risk of large-scale dropout of students at the higher classes.

West Bengal has 79 % primary schools with 47% students and only 3.5% secondary schools whereas in Chandigarh, 45 % schools are Higher Secondary schools and only 6.1 % primary schools.

Role of Teachers in shaping the future of students is well documented. Therefore, it is because of this noblest role that the teacher, deployment of teachers across different school type become important.

Distribution of Teachers by classes taught, for 2023-24 for different levels of education namely, pre-primary, primary, upper primary, secondary, and higher secondary are given below.

Both RTE and NEP 2020 envisage for right mix of teacher and student’s ratio called Pupil-to-Teacher Ratio (PTR). Lesser the PTR number represents teachers able to develop healthy one-on-one mentoring relationships and offer insight and help in ways that would be impossible in a larger classroom.

It is observed that, Chandigarh and Delhi, has highest number of students per school with PTR within the RTE norm indicating optimum utilization of school infrastructure.

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