Arunachal orders closure of 386 govt schools for zero enrolment
The order, issued by the state's Education department on Monday, follows a detailed analysis of data from the Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE), which identified a significant number of schools that have remained non-functional, in some cases for several years.
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Deccan Herald
4 days ago
- Deccan Herald
Arunachal orders closure of 386 govt schools for zero enrolment
The order, issued by the state's Education department on Monday, follows a detailed analysis of data from the Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE), which identified a significant number of schools that have remained non-functional, in some cases for several years.
India Today
18-05-2025
- India Today
23 Indian states report decline in government school enrolment: MoE seeks answers
A sharp fall in student enrolment in government schools across 23 States and Union Territories for the 2024-25 academic year has raised concern in the Ministry of enrolment drop was flagged during April meetings with 33 States and UTs on the PM-POSHAN data shows that over 21.83 lakh students stopped attending government schools in Uttar Pradesh alone. Bihar lost 6.14 lakh students, Rajasthan 5.63 lakh, and West Bengal 4.01 PM-POSHAN, earlier known as the midday meal scheme, provides hot meals to children up to Class 8 in government and aided schools. The Centre and States share costs, and the Centre supplies food grains. The cooked meals are meant to improve nutrition and per the media reports, it came to the limelight that the Ministry has asked the States to probe the reasons and send action plans by June DIPS IN SEVERAL STATESCompared to last year, Karnataka saw a 2 lakh drop, Assam 1.68 lakh, Tamil Nadu 1.65 lakh, and Delhi 1.05 lakh. Officials described the trend as worrying. In Delhi, only 60 percent of Balvatika students, 69 percent of primary, and 62 percent of upper-primary students received meals in 2024-25. This is lower than the national reports also highlight that the Ministry believes there are two key reasons. First, a change in data collection -- from broad school-level counts to detailed student-wise reporting using Aadhaar -- may have cleaned out fake records. Second, many students may now be shifting from government to private schools after the enrolment decline was first observed in the 2023-24 UDISE+ report. PM-POSHAN records show the trend has have also been told to check meal quality. Some students were found bringing food from home. In West Bengal, meal coverage dropped by over 8 lakh, by 5.41 lakh in UP, and by 3.27 lakh in Rajasthan.
Time of India
07-05-2025
- Time of India
Karnataka launches special campaign to boost govt school attendance
Bengaluru: The department of school education and literacy has initiated a new campaign to increase admissions to govt schools this many as 408 schools have been identified where the campaign will be held. "The schools will invite community leaders and parents to these schools, offering them guided tours and briefings on available facilities. This will create awareness of the benefits of enrolling in a govt school," said K V Trilok Chandra, commissioner, department of school there will be community outreach programmes where teachers will identify potential parents in the neighbourhood and encourage them to enrol their children in the govt schools. While a similar outreach programme is already in place, this year, it will be held on a larger campaign already began with state-level training for deputy directors of public instruction and block education officers last week. "With significant investments being made in govt schools, it is important to create awareness and get eligible students to enrol," he in Karnataka, even though the number of private schools is less than half of govt schools, the enrolment is more in them. As per the unified district information system for education (UDISE) 2023-24, there are 75,869 schools in the state. Of these, 49,306 are govt schools, 7,063 are aided, and 19,542 unaided 1,19,26,303 students are enrolled in classes LKG to class 12 in these schools. About 49.9 lakh children are in govt school system, 14.6 lakh in aided schools, and 54.8 lakh in private schools. As per UDISE data of 2022-23, approximately 53.3 lakh were in govt schools, 15.1 lakh in aided schools, and 55.6 lakh were in private enrolment in some govt schools has been increasing, owing to introduction of kindergarten, English medium; and Karnataka Public Schools, the class 1-12 schools, that boast good infrastructure and better student-faculty V P, educationist, said: "The idea is excellent, but in my opinion, it is too late. Many private schools start admissions by Oct/Nov itself. The department should announce the calendar of events much ahead and needs to be strict about it. By the time govt schools start admissions from April 10, it is way too late. Also, since there are holidays from April 10-May 29, the govt schools are hardly functional."He added: "We had a success story when all our school development monitoring committee members went to a village in Bannikuppe in Bidadi and handed over handbills with list of facilities in govt schools, and ended up with 2,600 students. The teachers should be committed when they roll out this programme."
