Lok Sabha Question No. 5179 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-04-04
Subject: Girls Drop Out of Schools
Ministry: Education
Asked by: D.K. Suresh

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

LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 5179

TO BE ANSWERED ON 04.04.2022

## Girls Drop Out of Schools

## 5179.   SHRI D.K.SURESH:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether  there  is  huge  number  of  girls  dropped out of schools in the country during the last three years and  if  so,  the  details  thereof,  State/year-wise;
- (b)  whether  the  Government  has  conducted  any study to find out reasons for the increasing drop out of school  girls  and  if  so,  the  details  thereof;  and
- (c)  whether the Government has taken any corrective measures  to  ensure  the  dropped  out school  girls  are re-enrolled in the schools and if so, the details thereof?

## A N S W E R

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (SMT. ANNPURNA DEVI)

- (a): As per the data available at UDISE/UDISE+, drop-out rate of girls at all levels of school education during the last three years is as under:

| Year    |   Primary |   Upper-Primary |   Secondary |
|---------|-----------|-----------------|-------------|
| 2017-18 |       3.3 |             5.6 |        18.4 |
| 2018-19 |       4.3 |             5.1 |        17   |
| 2019-20 |       1.2 |             3   |        15.1 |

(Source: UDISE/UDISE+)

The above data shows that the drop-out  rate of  girls  has  been  decreasing  consistently. State/UT-wise list of drop-out rate of girls at all levels of school education during the last three years is at Annexure.

- (b)  & (c):    Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSEL), Ministry of Education is implementing  the  scheme  of  Samagra  Shiksha,  a  centrally  sponsored  scheme,  effective  from 2018-19, for universalization of quality education throughout the country in coordination with the States and UTs. Bridging gender and social category gaps at all levels of school education  is one of the major objectives of the Samagra Shiksha,

In order to ensure greater participation of girls in schools and to reduce drop-out rate of girls, various interventions have been targeted under Samagra Shiksha which include opening of schools in the neighbourhood as defined by the State, provision of free text-books &  uniforms to girls up to Class VIII, provision of gender segregated toilets in all schools, teachers' sensitization programmes to promote girls' participation, provision for self-defence training for the girls from classes VI to XII, stipend to CWSN girls from class I to Class XII, construction  of  residential quarters  for  teachers  in  remote/hilly  areas/in areas with difficult terrain, vocationalization of secondary education, special projects for equity such as like life skills, awareness programmes,

incinerators, sanitary pad vending machines. In addition, to reduce gender gaps at all levels of school education, there is a provision of Kasturba  Gandhi  Balika  Vidyalayas  sanctioned  in  Educationally  Backward  Blocks  under Samagra  Shiksha,    which  are  residential  schools  from  class  VI  to  XII  for  girls  belonging  to disadvantaged  groups  such  as  SC,  ST,  OBC,  Minority  and  Below  Poverty  Line.  As  on 10.03.2022, a total of 5018 KGBVs are operational with the enrolment of 6.65 lakh girls.

Additionally, all States and UTs have been requested to proactively track girls as well as transgender  children,  who  are  not  enrolled  in  schools  or  have  dropped-out  of  school  without completing their School Education and get them admitted in age-appropriate classes in schools.

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## ANNEXURE

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5179  TO  BE  ANSWERED  ON  04.04.2022  ASKED  BY  SHRI  D.K.SURESH,  HON'BLE  MEMBER  OF PARLIAMENT REGARDING 'GIRLS DROP OUT OF SCHOOLS'.

## Dropout Rate of Girls

| S. No.   | State/UT                 | 2017-18   | 2017-18       | 2017-18   | 2018-19   | 2018-19       | 2018-19   | 2019-20   | 2019-20       | 2019-20   |
|----------|--------------------------|-----------|---------------|-----------|-----------|---------------|-----------|-----------|---------------|-----------|
| S. No.   | State/UT                 | Primary   | Upper Primary | Secondary | Primary   | Upper Primary | Secondary | Primary   | Upper Primary | Secondary |
| 1        | Andaman& Nicobar Islands | 0.3       | -             | 4.9       | 1.2       | 0.4           | 18.0      | 0.3       | 0.0           | 12.3      |
| 2        | Andhra Pradesh           | -         | 0.6           | 21.4      | 0.0       | 0.9           | 15.2      | 0.0       | 0.2           | 12.2      |
| 3        | Arunachal Pradesh        | 6.1       | 7.6           | 17.2      | 13.1      | 7.0           | 35.0      | 4.6       | 7.2           | 30.9      |
| 4        | Assam                    | 8.9       | 4.6           | 35.2      | 2.6       | 0.7           | 32.1      | 3.6       | 2.1           | 32.9      |
| 5        | Bihar                    | 4.9       | 13.3          | 33.7      | 6.8       | 12.1          | 29.5      | 1.5       | 9.2           | 22.7      |
| 6        | Chandigarh               | -         | -             | -         | 0.0       | 1.3           | 4.3       | 0.0       | 0.3           | 3.3       |
| 7        | Chhattisgarh             | 1.5       | 4.9           | 18.2      | 3.5       | 6.3           | 14.0      | 0.6       | 3.1           | 17.2      |
| 8        | Dadra& Nagar Haveli      | -         | 2.4           | 22.0      | 0.0       | 2.4           | 17.5      | 0.0       | 1.2           | 17.3      |
| 9        | Daman &Diu               | 0.6       | 1.4           | 17.1      | 0.3       | 0.0           | 19.3      | 0.2       | 0.0           | 16.5      |
| 10       | Delhi                    | -         | 1.6           | 16.0      | 0.0       | 0.8           | 13.7      | 0.0       | 0.3           | 11.9      |
| 11       | Goa                      | -         | -             | 4.0       | 1.4       | 1.2           | 6.2       | 0.2       | 0.2           | 7.2       |
| 12       | Gujarat                  | 2.1       | 9.8           | 19.0      | 1.9       | 9.1           | 21.2      | 0.9       | 7.2           | 20.6      |
| 13       | Haryana                  | -         | 1.2           | 13.1      | 0.0       | 2.3           | 13.7      | 0.0       | 2.5           | 12.0      |
| 14       | Himachal Pradesh         | -         | 0.7           | 5.3       | 0.5       | 0.3           | 6.6       | 0.8       | 1.0           | 5.9       |
| 15       | Jammu And Kashmir        | 2.2       | 0.5           | 2.5       | 6.9       | 7.0           | 17.7      | 3.9       | 3.4           | 16.6      |
| 16       | Jharkhand                | -         | -             | 10.7      | 4.6       | 9.7           | 22.4      | 5.3       | 7.9           | 17.0      |
| 17       | Karnataka                | 1.4       | 2.7           | 21.9      | 0.0       | 0.5           | 20.2      | 0.9       | 2.3           | 14.1      |
| 18       | Kerala                   | 0.3       | 0.0           | 9.5       | 0.0       | 0.0           | 6.8       | 0.0       | 0.0           | 5.9       |
| 19       | Ladakh                   |           |               |           |           |               |           | 2.1       | 0.8           | 9.9       |
| 20       | Lakshadweep              | -         | 2.6           | 3.4       | 0.0       | 0.0           | 5.5       | 0.0       | 0.4           | 2.7       |
| 21       | Madhya                   | 3.6       | 7.2           | 24.2      | 3.0       | 6.8           | 24.0      | 0.7       | 4.7           | 21.8      |
| 22       | Pradesh Maharashtra      | 0.2       | 2.2           | 12.2      | 1.1       | 2.6           | 12.8      | 0.1       | 1.5           | 14.0      |
| 23       | Manipur                  | 3.9       | 1.2           | 7.8       | 5.1       | 2.8           | 13.2      | 8.7       | 3.5           | 9.2       |
| 24       | Meghalaya                | 0.7       | 5.4           | 17.6      | 15.3      | 8.2           | 18.3      | 6.1       | 6.6           | 21.8      |
| 25       | Mizoram                  | 7.4       | 5.6           | 16.9      | 7.1       | 2.3           | 10.1      | 7.6       | 1.2           | 17.5      |
| 26       | Nagaland                 | 4.3       | 3.9           | 12.9      | 11.2      | 2.8           | 22.5      | 3.5       | 3.9           | 20.7      |
| 27       | Odisha                   | 5.6       | 4.8           | 27.8      | 3.9       | 5.0           | 7.2       | 0.8       | 4.1           | 21.9      |
| 28       | Puducherry               | 2.2       | 1.5           | 12.7      | 0.0       | 0.0           | 7.9       | 0.0       | 0.0           | 4.9       |
| 29       | Punjab                   | 2.8       | 4.0           | 10.8      | 1.3       | 2.9           | 9.6       | 0.0       | 0.0           | 0.0       |
| 30       | Rajasthan                | 3.5       | 3.4           | 10.8      | 4.8       | 4.4           | 12.8      | 2.8       | 2.1           | 12.1      |
| 31       | Sikkim                   | -         | -             | 14.1      | 4.6       | 0.6           | 21.3      | 0.0       | 0.0           | 21.1      |
| 32       | Tamil Nadu               | 6.0       | 9.4           | 13.0      | 1.6       | 0.9           | 8.1       | 0.8       | 0.3           | 5.6       |
| 33       | Telangana                | 3.1       | 2.1           | 15.2      | 2.1       | 2.7           | 11.6      | 0.0       | 0.0           | 10.6      |
| 34       | Tripura                  | 0.7       | 1.9           | 27.3      | 2.5       | 3.6           | 29.7      | 1.8       | 3.2           | 26.4      |
| 35       | Uttar Pradesh            | 7.1       | 9.8 2.8       | 19.5      | 9.9       | 8.4           | 15.6      | 2.5       | 4.0           | 14.2      |
| 36       | Uttarakhand              | 3.4       |               | 10.7      | 3.5       | 3.4           | 9.5       | 2.2       | 2.4           | 7.3       |
|          |                          |           | -             |           |           |               |           |           |               | 13.6      |
| 37       | West Bengal All India    | - 3.3     | 5.6           | 15.1 18.4 | 2.9 4.3   | 0.0 5.1       | 19.6 17.0 | 0.3 1.2   | 0.0 3.0       | 15.1      |

(Source: UDISE/UDISE+)