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Figure 1: Average Annual HDI Growth Rate (per cent), 2010-2019

1.60 1.41 1.39
1.40 1.21
1.20 0.95 0.94
1.00 0.86 0.73
0.80 0.60 0.59 0.57
0.60 0.41
0.40 0.24 0.20 0.12
0.20
0.00

Source: Human Development Report, 2020, UNDP

QUALITY EDUCATION FOR ALL

10.6 India will have the highest population of young people in the world over the next decade.
So, our ability to provide high-quality educational opportunities to them will determine the
future of our country (National Education Policy, 2020). The progress in school and higher
education infrastructure and gross enrolment at all levels is given in Table 3. As per U-DISE
+
2018-19 , the physical infrastructure of more than 9.72 lakh government elementary schools has
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improved significantly. Out of these, 90.2 per cent have girls’ toilet, 93.7 per cent have boys’
toilet, 95.9 per cent have provision of drinking water facility, 88.1 per cent have hand wash
facility, 82.1 per cent have wash (drinking water, toilet and hand wash) facility, 84.2 per cent
have medical check-up facility, 20.7 per cent have computer and 67.4 per cent have electricity
connection, 74.2 per cent have ramps, 56.5 per cent have boundary wall, 69.3 per cent have
playground, 83.8 per cent have library, 21.5 per cent have kitchen garden and 13.9 per cent have
rainwater harvesting structure, 23.6 per cent have facility for testing of water and 14.8 per cent
have incinerator.

Table 3: Increase in Number of Recognized Schools, Colleges and Universities Infrastructure

Year Primary & Upper Secondary and Colleges Universities
Primary schools (in lakhs) Sr. Secondary
Schools (in lakhs)
2011-12 11.93 2.12 34852 642
2018-19 12.37 2.76 39931 993
Source: Education Statistics at a Glance, 2018 & U-DISE+ Report and AISHE Report 2018-19, M/o Education

3 The Unified District Information System for Education plus (U-DISE+) collects data on various indicators on
school education. For the purpose of this report schools with Primary or Upper Primary classes have been referred
as ‘Elementary Schools’.