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Figure 6: Schools with Basic Facilities (in per cent)
Figure 6: Schools with Basic Facilities (in percent)
2012-13 2019-20
96.9 95.9
88.7 90.2
84.1 83.4 82.3
67.8 69.2
61.1
54.6
36.3 38.5
22.2 22.3
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Girl's toilet Boy's toilet Hand wash Library/ Electriicty Medical Computer Internet
facility reading room/ checkup in
reading corner schools in a
year

Source: Ministry of Education (Unified District Information System for Education plus (UDISE+, 2019-20)
Source: Ministry of Education (Unified District Information System for Education plus (UDISE+),
2019-20)
School Enrolment

10.24 In 2019-20, 26.45 crore children were enrolled in schools. During the year, schools

enrolled about 42 lakh additional children, out of which 26 lakh were in primary to higher

secondary levels and 16 lakh were in pre-primary as per Unified District Information

System for Education plus (UDISE+) database . The enrolments increased across all
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levels viz., upper-primary, secondary, and higher secondary, except for primary level. At
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primary level, enrolment reduced from 13.5 crore in 2012-13 to 12.2 crore 2019-20. This

decline in enrolment was because of decline in total number of children in the age group

6-10 years .
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10.25 Year 2019-20 saw improvement in gross enrolment ratios (GER) at all levels and
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improvement in gender parity. GER in primary – enrolment in class 1 to 5 as a percentage
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of population in age 6 to 10 years - for girls as well as boys have improved in 2019-20. This

improvement has reversed the declining trends between 2016-17 and 2018-19 (Figure 7.a). GER

in upper-primary (enrolment in class 6 to 8 as a percent of population in age 11-13 years), which

was stagnant between 2016-17 and 2018-19, improved in 2019-20 (Figure 7.b). GER for boys

and girls in Secondary (9 & 10 ) have also improved in 2019-20 (Figure 8). In corresponding
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age groups in Primary and Upper-primary levels, girls' GER are better than boys' (UDISE+,

2019-20).
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7 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 to as ‘Elementary Schools’
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8 Levels of education: Primary (1-5 Std), Upper primary (6-8 Std), Secondary (9 & 10 Std), Higher secondary (11 & 12 Std).
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9 Report on UDISE+, 2019-20
10 GER is defined as total enrolment in a particular level of school education, regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the population of the
official age-group which corresponds to the given level of school education in a given school year.