Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) Report

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Context: Report on Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) released by the Ministry of Education.

Details:

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

About UDISE+ 2020-21 Report:

• In 2020-21 total students enrolled in school education from primary to higher secondary increased as compared to the enrollment in 2019-20.
• Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) which measures the general level of participation has improved in 2020-21 at all levels of school education compared to 2019-20.
• Higher number of teachers are engaged in school education during 2020-21 compared to 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 more girls are enrolled in primary to higher secondary as compared to the enrollment of girls in 2019-20.
• 84% of schools have functional electricity facilities.
• 2% of schools have functional drinking water.
• 91% of schools have functional girl’s toilet facilities.
• 40% of the schools have functional computers.
• During 2020-21, 39.7 lakh students of government aided, private school students shifted to Government schools.

About UDISE+:

• The UDISE+ system of online data collection from the schools was developed by the Department of School Education and Literacy in the year 2018-19.
• It aims to overcome the issues related to the practice of manual data filling in paper format and then feeding them on computers at the block or district level in the UDISE data collection system since 2012-13.
• In UDISE+ system, improvements have been made particularly in the areas related to data capture, data mapping and data verification.

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