Ministry Of Education To Release Report On Unified District Information System For Education Plus (UDISE+) 2020-21

By EB Bureau On Mar 10, 2022

New Delhi: The Ministry of Education (MoE) will be releasing a detailed report on the Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) 2020-21 on school education of India.

In 2018-19, the Department of School Education and Literacy developed the UDISE+ data collection system for schools to overcome the problems associated with the previous practice of manually filling data in paper format and feeding it onto computers at the district or block level through UDISE since 2012-13. There have been improvements in the UDISE+ system, especially in the areas of data capture, mapping, and verification.

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, said an official statement.

The 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.

Level wise GER in 2020-21 as compared to 2019-20 are:

92.2 per cent from 89.7 per cent in upper primary
99.1 per cent from 97.8 per cent in elementary
79.8 per cent from 77.9 per cent in secondary
53.8 per cent from 51.4 per cent in higher secondary respectively

96.96 lakh teachers are engaged in school education during 2020-21. Compared to 2019-20, this is an increase of approximately 8800 teachers, the statement added.

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
The PTR for primary, upper primary, secondary and higher secondary was 28, 20, 21, and 30 respectively during 2018-19
In 2020-21, over 12.2 crore girls are enrolled in primary to higher secondary, showing an increase of 11.8 lakh girls compared to the enrolment of girls in 2019-20

The number of non-teaching staff has also improved over the years.

The total non-staff during 2020-21 stood at 15.8 lakh as compared to 12.37 lakhs in 2018-19.

From 2018-19 to 2020-21, the number of accountants, library assistants, laboratory assistants, head clerks, and LDC/UDC staff has increased from 5.79 lakh to 7.8 lakh.

In 2020-21, 39.7 lakh government-aided students and students from private schools shifted to government schools.