Lok Sabha Question No. 3960 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-27
Subject: School Dropouts in Jammu and Kashmir
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: JUGAL KISHORE SHARMA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION AND LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.  3960 TO BE ANSWERED ON 27.03.2017

## School Dropouts in Jammu and Kashmir

†3960. SHRI JUGAL KISHORE:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government has noticed the declining trend in the  number of students taking admissions from Middle level to secondary level in various States including Jammu and Kashmir;

(b) if so, the details thereof, State/UT wise including Jammu &  Kashmir;

(c) the present status of the National Secondary education campaign  to facilitate the secondary education for all; and

(d)  the  measures  taken/being  taken  by  the  Government  to  promote  the  number  of  admission  seekers  at secondary level in the schools  throughout the country?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI UPENDRA KUSHWAHA)

(a) & (b) As per Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) database, overall enrolment in class IX has increased from 2,02,96,590 in 2014-15 to 2,04,83,777 in 2015-16. The States/UTs wise details including Jammu & Kashmir are at Annexure.

(c)  &  (d)  The  Centrally  Sponsored  Scheme  Rashtriya  Madhyamik  Shiksha  Abhiyan  (RMSA)  envisages inter-alia provision of a secondary school within a reasonable distance of any habitation and to improve quality of education imparted at secondary level by making all secondary schools conform to prescribed norms, removing gender, socio-economic and disability barriers etc. Under the scheme, financial support is provided to the States/UTs for opening of new government secondary schools alongwith (i) Class Rooms, (ii) Integrated Science Laboratory, (iii) Library (iv) Art and Craft Room, (v) Toilet Blocks, (vi) Drinking Water  facility,  (vii)  Head  Master  Room,  (viii)  Office  Room.  As  part  of  strengthening  of  existing government secondary schools (i) Additional Class Rooms, (ii) Science Laboratory, (iii) Library, (iv) Art and Craft Room, (v) Toilet Blocks, (vi) Drinking water facility etc. are also covered under the programme. 12,394  new  schools  &  37,382  existing  schools  for  strengthening,  2,483  Girls  Hostels  in  educationally backward blocks,  7,448  schools  for  vocational  education  and  88,078  schools  for  ICT    component  have been approved till 2016-17.

Further,  under  the  scheme,  interventions  such  as  residential  quarters  for  teachers,  additional teachers  to  improve  the  Pupil  Teacher  Ratio,  self  defence  training  for  girls  students,  guidance  and counselling, adolescent education programmes, organization of empowerment/awareness camps, remedial teaching  for  weaker  students  etc  are  approved  to  improve  the  access  to  and  quality  of  education  at  the secondary stage.

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## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) & (b) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3960 TO BE ANSWERED ON 27.03.2017 ASKED BY SHRI JUGAL KISHORE REGARDING "SCHOOL DROPOUTS IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR'

Enrollment in Class IX in 2014-15 and 2015-16

| State/UT                 |   Class IX |   Class IX |
|--------------------------|------------|------------|
| Andaman &Nicobar Islands |       7039 |       6890 |
| Andhra Pradesh           |     654648 |     643769 |
| Arunachal Pradesh        |      29107 |      29151 |
| Assam                    |     535405 |     543437 |
| Bihar                    |    1616397 |    1805886 |
| Chandigarh               |      21545 |      22579 |
| Chhattisgarh             |     555732 |     530086 |
| Dadra &Nagar Haveli      |       6732 |       6982 |
| Daman &Diu               |       3094 |       3250 |
| Delhi                    |     397640 |     428455 |
| Goa                      |      30620 |      29566 |
| Gujarat                  |     910360 |     913469 |
| Haryana                  |     447347 |     456586 |
| Himachal Pradesh         |     130258 |     126550 |
| Jammu And Kashmir        |     192567 |     181043 |
| Jharkhand                |     536645 |     539232 |
| Karnataka                |     916784 |     921628 |
| Kerala                   |     563010 |     545641 |
| Lakshadweep              |       1486 |       1406 |
| Madhya Pradesh           |    1485088 |    1467054 |
| Maharashtra              |    1970514 |    1953159 |
| Manipur                  |      43564 |      43726 |
| Meghalaya                |      56199 |      58367 |
| Mizoram                  |      20964 |      22110 |
| Nagaland                 |      32771 |      36306 |
| Odisha                   |     632564 |     648573 |
| Pondicherry              |      23873 |      23491 |
| Punjab                   |     451412 |     455303 |
| Rajasthan                |    1192043 |    1214024 |
| Sikkim                   |      15293 |      16115 |
| Tamil Nadu               |    1122807 |    1161546 |
| Telangana                |     530002 |     534804 |
| Tripura                  |      87312 |      84533 |
| Uttar Pradesh            |    3372729 |    3308247 |
| Uttarkhand               |     197590 |     192095 |
| West Bengal              |    1505449 |    1528718 |
| All India                |   20296590 |   20483777 |

As per UDISE 2015-16