UNIFIED DISTRICT INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR EDUCATION PLUS (UDISE+) REPORT

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The Union Ministry of Education released a report titled ‘Unified District Information System for Education plus (UDISE+) 2021-22’ on school education in India.

Key Points of the UDISE+ 2020-21 Report

In 2021-22 total numbers of students enrolled in school education from primary to higher secondary increased as compared to the enrollment in 2020-21.
- 57 crore students enrolled in 2021-22 as compared to 25.38 crores in 2020-21
Enrolment of Students from Scheduled castes increased to 4.82 Crore in 2021-22 as compared to 4.78 Crore in 2020-21.
- Enrolment of Students from the Scheduled Tribe increased to 2.51 crore in 2021-22 from 2.49 crore in 2020-21.
- Enrolment of Students from other backward groups also increased to 11.48 crore in 2021-22 from 11.35 crore in 2020-21.
The Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) which measure the general level of participation has improved in 2021-22 at all levels of school education compared to 2020-21.
- GER in higher secondary has increased from 53.8% in 2021-21 to 57.6% in 2021-22.
In 2021-22, the Total enrolment of Children with Special Needs (CWSN) stands at 22.67 lakh as compared to 21.91 lakh in 2020-21.
During 2021-22, nearly 95.07 lakh teachers were engaged in school education out of which more than 51% are female teachers.
In 2021-22, the Pupil Teacher Ratio (PTR) stood at 26 for primary, 19 for upper primary, 18 for secondary and 27 for higher secondary.
- In 2018-19, the PTR for primary, upper primary, secondary and higher secondary was 28, 19, 21, and 30 respectively.
In 2021-22, more than 12.29 crore girls were enrolled in primary to higher secondary.
The Gender Parity Index (GPI) shows the representation of females in school education is in line with the representation of girls in the population.
In 2021-22, the total number of schools stood at 14.89 lakhs as compared to 15.09 lakhs in 2020-21.
- The decline in total schools is mainly due to the closure of private and other management schools and the grouping/ clustering of schools by various States.
The availability of basic infrastructure facilities in schools;
- Electricity connection in 89.3% of schools.
- Drinking water in 98.2% of schools
- Girls' toilets in 97.5% of schools
- Playground in 77% of schools
- Library/ Reading room/ Reading corner in 87.3% of schools
- Only 27% of schools have special toilets for children with special needs (CSWN).
Kitchen Gardens in 27.7% of schools
Rain Water Harvesting in 21% of schools.
Only 44.85% of schools had computer facilities, and nearly 34% had an internet connection.

About UDISE+

The UDISE+ system of online data collection from the schools was developed by the Department of School Education and Literacy in the year 2018-19.
It aims to overcome the issues related to the practice of manual data filling in paper format and then feeding them on computers at the block or district level in the UDISE data collection system since 2012-13.
In the UDISE+ system, improvements have been made particularly in the areas related to data capture, data mapping and data verification.
In UDISE+ 2021-22, additional data on a digital library, peer learning, hard spot identification, the number of books available in a school library, etc have been collected for the first time.