Lok Sabha Question No. 875 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-12-12
Subject: Rise in Enrollment in Government Schools after COVID-19 Pandemic
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Vijayakumar (alias) Vijay Vasanth

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.875 ANSWERED ON 12.12.2022

## Rise in Enrollment in Government Schools after COVID-19 Pandemic

## 875. SHRI VIJAYAKUMAR ALIAS VIJAY VASANTH:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a) whether it is a fact that the Government run schools continued to see rise in enrollments for the second consecutive year since the Covid-19 outbreak, while private schools saw decline;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether  it  is  also  true  that  the  number  of  teaching  staff  in  Government  schools  have  not  been increasing in commensurate with the growing number of admissions;
- (d) if  so,  whether  the  Government  has  taken  any  steps  to  maintain  the  required  ratio  between  the students and the teachers;
- (e) if so, the details thereof; and
- (f) if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

## (SMT. ANNPURNA DEVI)

(a) and (b): The Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSEL), Ministry of Education has developed the Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) system to record data on indicators of school education provided by all the States and Union Territories. As per the data recorded in UDISE+, total enrolment in different managements viz Government, Government Aided, Private Unaided and Others for the year 2019-20 to 2021-22 are as under:

| Year    |   Enrolment in Government schools |   Enrolment in Government Aided school |   Enrolment in Private Unaided schools |   Enrolment in Other schools |
|---------|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|------------------------------|
| 2019-20 |                         130931634 |                               27498530 |                               98209302 |                      7888109 |
| 2020-21 |                         134904560 |                               26845527 |                               95157082 |                      7542818 |
| 2021-22 |                         143240480 |                               27039457 |                               88271316 |                      6684577 |

(c) to (f): Education is in the concurrent list of the Constitution. The recruitment, service conditions and deployment of teachers come under the purview of the respective State and Union Territory (UT) Government. The recruitment of teachers in schools is a continuous process and the vacancies keep  arising  due  to  retirement,  resignation  and  additional  requirements  on  account  of  enhanced students'  strength/new  schools.  However,  the  Ministry  of  Education  requests  the  State  and  UT Governments  for  filling-up  the  vacant  posts  of  teachers  and  their  rational  deployment,  through review meetings and advisories from time  to  time.  Further,  the  Central  Government  through  the Centrally  Sponsored  Scheme  of  Samagra  Shiksha,  provides  assistance  to  the  States  and  UTs  for deployment of  additional  teachers  to  maintain  appropriate  Pupil-Teacher  Ratio  (PTR)  as  per  the prescribed norms for various levels of schooling. As per data recorded in UDISE+, total teachers in different management viz government, government aided, private unaided and others for the year 2019-20 to 2021-22 are as under:

| Year    |   Teachers in Government schools |   Teachers in Government Aided school |   Teachers in Private Unaided schools |   Teachers in Other schools |
|---------|----------------------------------|---------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|-----------------------------|
| 2019-20 |                          4938868 |                                820301 |                               3602625 |                      325783 |
| 2020-21 |                          4927099 |                                808355 |                               3647674 |                      313297 |
| 2021-22 |                          4882446 |                                796631 |                               3540647 |                      287399 |

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