UDISE+ 2019-20 Report

• 05 Jul 2021

Why in News

Recently, the Union Education Minister released the Report on United Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) 2019-20 for School Education in India.

United Information System for Education Plus

• It is one of the largest Management Information Systems on school education. It was launched in 2018-2019 to speed up data entry, reduce errors, improve data quality and ease its verification.
• It is an application to collect the school details about factors related to a school and its resources.
  
  • It is an updated and improved version of UDISE, which was initiated in 2012-13 by the Ministry of Education.
• It covers more than 1.5 million schools, 8.5 million teachers and 250 million children.
• It helps measure the education parameters from classes 1 to 12 in government and private schools across India.

Key Points

• Total Students:
  
  • In 2019-20, total students in school education from pre-primary to higher secondary have crossed 26.45 crore. This is higher by 42.3 lakh compared to 2018-19.
• Gross Enrolment Ratio:
  
  • Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) at all levels of school education has improved in 2019-20 compared to 2018-19.
    
    • Upper Primary Level increased to 89.7% from 87.7%.
    • Elementary Level increased to 97.8% from 96.1%.
    • Secondary Level increased to 77.9% from 76.9%.
    • Higher Secondary Level increased to 51.4% from 50.1%.
  • GER is the number of students enrolled in a given level of education, regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the official school-age population corresponding to the same level of education.
• Pupil Teacher Ratio:
  
  • In 2019-20, 96.87 lakh teachers were engaged in school education. This is higher by about 2.57 lakh compared to 2018-19.
  • The Pupil Teacher Ratio (PTR) has improved at all levels of school education.
• Enrolment of Divyang Students:
  
  • Enrolment of Divyang students has increased by 6.52% over 2018-19.
• Enrolment of Girls:
  
  • In 2019-20, enrolment of girls from primary to higher secondary is more than 12.08 crore. This is an increase by 14.08 lakh compared to 2018-19.
• Gender Parity Index:
  
  • Between 2012-13 and 2019-20, the Gender Parity Index (GPI) at both Secondary and Higher Secondary levels have improved.
    
    • GPI in primary, secondary and tertiary education is the ratio of the number of female students enrolled at primary, secondary and tertiary levels of education to the number of male students in each level.
  • Improvement of GPI has been most pronounced at the higher secondary level, which has gone up to 1.04 in 2019-20 from 0.97 in 2012-13.
• Facilities at Schools:
  
  • Electricity: More than 80% of schools in India in 2019-20 had functional electricity. This is an improvement of more than 6% over the previous year 2018-19.
  • Computers: The number of schools having functional computers increased to 5.2 lakh in 2019-20 from 4.7 lakh in 2018-19.
  • Internet: The number of schools having internet facilities increased to 3.36 lakh in 2019-20 from 2.9 lakh in 2018-19.
  • Hand Wash Facility: More than 90% of schools in India had hand wash facilities in 2019-20. This is a major improvement as this percentage was only 36.3% in 2012-13.
  • Medical Check-Ups: More than 82% of schools conducted medical check-ups of students in 2019-20, an increase of more than 4% compared to the previous year 2018-19.
• Some Important Government Initiatives:
  
  • New National Education Policy (NEP), 2020.
  • Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
  • Mid Day Meal Scheme.
  • Right To Education (RTE) Act, 2009.
  • Beti Bachao Beti Padhao.

Source: PIB