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15/03/22 13:23 PM IST

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

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  • The Ministry of Education (MoE) will be releasing a detailed report on Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) 2020-21 on school education of India.
Highlights of the report 
  • 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.
  • Level wise GER in 2020-21 as compared to 2019-20 are: 92.2% from 89.7% in upper primary, 99.1 % from 97.8% in elementary, 79.8% from 77.9% in secondary and 53.8% from 51.4% in higher secondary respectively.
  • 96.96 lakh teachers are engaged in school education during 2020-21.
  • This is higher by about 8800 in comparison with number of teachers in school education in 2019-20.


ABout UDISE+ system 

  • The UDISE+ system of online data collection from the schools was developed by Department of School Education & Literacy in the year 2018-19.
  • It was aimed 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.
  • In UDISE+ system, improvements have been made particularly in the areas related to data capture, data mapping and data verification.
Source- PIB 

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