Kerala Tops in Elementary Education

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Kerala Tops in Elementary Education

New Delhi: Kerala has emerged the top performing State and Bihar is in the last spot in an official survey on elementary education in the country in 2005-06.

The District Information System for Education (DISE) data, complied by government think tank National University for Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), took access, infrastructure, teacher and outcome indicators into account to compute the Educational Development Index (EDI).

Covering 11,24,033 schools in 35 States and Union Territories, the report, released here on Monday, shows that as per composite primary and upper primary EDI, Kerala, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh are the top five, while Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh And Assam are the five bottom – ranked States

Among the seven smaller States and Union Territories, Puducherry is the best and Mizoram has out-performed the other six States in the North-east.

The enrolment of student in class I to VII in 2005-06 was 168.29 million, an increase of 12.28 million from the previous year, according to the DISE data. However, about 180 of the 581 districts reported decline in primary enrolment.

The average of all districts has shown a consistent improvement in both gender parity index (GPI) and girls’ share, both in primary and upper primary, is found to be slightly lower in rural areas.

It said the GPI in primary enrolment is a little low in States such as Bihar and Rajasthan and the goal of universalisation of primary education in such States may nor be realized unless all girls are brought under the education system.

The enrolment of SC’s and STs in elementary classes has reported a decline from 20.58 per cent and 10.18 percent in 2004-05 to 18.64 per cent and 2005-06. But the percentage is in tune with their present share in population. The enrolment of OBCs has registered a minor increase.

The data would help in ascertaining how the schools were performing and evolving long-term solutions to problems, NUEPA Vice-Chancellor Ved Prakash said.

Kerala Tops in Elementary Education

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