Lok Sabha Question No. 192 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-07-21
Subject: Data of Dropout Students
Ministry: EDUCATION
Asked by: Shri Balwant Baswant Wankhade

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO-192

ANSWERED ON 21.07.2025

## Data of Dropout Students

†192. Shri Balwant Baswant Wankhade:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has any data of dropouts students from schools;
- (b) if so, the details of primary, secondary and high school dropout during the last three years, State and District-wise;
- (c) the steps taken by the Government to encourage parents to educate their children; and
- (d) the steps taken by the Government to provide education to all students under 'Right to Education'?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (SHRI JAYANT CHAUDHARY)

- (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  UDISE+, State/UT-wise dropout rate from the year 2021-22 to 2023-24 is at Annexure-I.
- (c) and (d): Education is in the concurrent list of the Constitution and majority of the schools are under the domain of respective State and UT Governments. Central Government assist States and UTs through the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Samagra Shiksha and Mid Day Meal provided from Balvatika to class 8  under  Pradhan  Mantri  Poshan  Shakti  Nirman  (PM  POSHAN)  Yojna.  Financial  assistance  is  also provided  to  the  States  and  UTs  for  various  activities  to  reduce  dropout  and  increase  enrolment  in Government schools, which include opening/strengthening of new schools up to senior secondary level, strengthening school infrastructure, setting up and up gradation and running of Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBV) upto class 12, setting up of residential schools/hostels named Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose  Avasiya  Vidyalayas,  hostels  under  Pradhan  Mantri  Janjati  Adivasi  Nyaya  Maha  Abhiyan  (PMJANMAN)  and  Dharti  Aaba  Janjatiya  Gram  Utkarsh  Abhiyan  (DAJGUA),  transport  allowance, undertaking enrolment drives, seasonal hostels/residential camps, provision of vocational education and ICT  facilities  in  schools,  providing  free  text  books  and  free  uniform,  transport/escort  facility,  etc, financial assistance is also provided for aids and appliances for children with special needs.

Under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, every child, of the age of  six  to  fourteen  years,  has  a  right  to  free  and  compulsory  elementary  education  in  a  neighbourhood school.  Section  12(1)  (c)  of  the  RTE  Act,  2009  mandates  reservation  in  private  unaided  schools  for children belonging to weaker sections and disadvantaged groups to the extent of at least 25% seats at entry  level  and  provision  of  free  and  compulsory  elementary  education  to  such  children  till  its completion.

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ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (A)  OF  LOK  SABHA  UNSTARRED QUESTION  NO.  192  ANSWERED  ON  21/07/2025  ASKED  BY  HONB'LE  MP  SHRI BALWANT BASWANT WANKHADE REGARDING 'DATA OF DROPOUT STUDENTS'

State/UT-wise dropout rate from the year 2021-22 to 2023-24

| India/State/UT                           | 2021-22   | 2021-22       | 2021-22   | 2022-23   | 2022-23       | 2022-23   | 2023-24   | 2023-24       | 2023-24   |
|------------------------------------------|-----------|---------------|-----------|-----------|---------------|-----------|-----------|---------------|-----------|
| India/State/UT                           | Primary   | Upper Primary | Secondary | Primary   | Upper Primary | Secondary | Primary   | Upper Primary | Secondary |
| India                                    | 1.45      | 3.02          | 12.61     | 7.8       | 8.1           | 16.4      | 1.9       | 5.2           | 14.1      |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands              | 0.42      | 0.95          | 5         | 0         | 1             | 5.5       | 0.8       | 0.4           | 5.5       |
| Andhra Pradesh                           | 0         | 1.62          | 16.29     | 0         | 0             | 14.7      | 0.2       | 1.1           | 12.5      |
| Arunachal Pradesh                        | 9.25      | 6.69          | 11.74     | 15        | 10.5          | 16.9      | 5.4       | 6.8           | 19.3      |
| Assam                                    | 6.02      | 8.82          | 20.25     | 8.5       | 10.3          | 29.5      | 6.2       | 8.2           | 25.1      |
| Bihar                                    | 0         | 4.62          | 20.46     | 10.7      | 15.8          | 29.5      | 8.9       | 25.9          | 25.6      |
| Chandigarh                               | 0         | 0             | 0         | 0         | 0.5           | 1.1       | 0         | 0.4           | 2.9       |
| Chhattisgarh                             | 0.77      | 4.1           | 9.73      | 5.4       | 6.6           | 18.2      | 1.8       | 5.3           | 16.3      |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | 0         | 0             | 9.47      | 0         | 0.7           | 18.8      | 1.6       | 3.1           | 18.7      |
| Delhi                                    | 0         | 0             | 4.84      | 0         | 1.9           | 7.3       | 0         | 0.6           | 10.4      |
| Goa                                      | 0         | 0             | 8.98      | 0.3       | 1.9           | 8.8       | 0.8       | 1.1           | 8.1       |
| Gujarat                                  | 0         | 4.95          | 17.85     | 0         | 5.8           | 23.3      | 0.1       | 4.2           | 21        |
| Haryana                                  | 0         | 0.22          | 5.91      | 1.4       | 3.6           | 15.4      | 1.2       | 4.7           | 13.8      |
| Himachal Pradesh                         | 0         | 0.58          | 1.46      | 1         | 2             | 6.7       | 0         | 0.6           | 4.9       |
| Jammu and Kashmir                        | 4.03      | 2.99          | 5.96      | 8.9       | 4.2           | 9         | 1.6       | 3.2           | 13.4      |
| Jharkhand                                | 1.77      | 3.85          | 9.31      | 11.5      | 14.5          | 25.7      | 0.9       | 9             | 15.2      |
| Karnataka                                | 0         | 1.08          | 14.65     | 0         | 0             | 14.9      | 1.7       | 2.7           | 22.1      |
| Kerala                                   | 0         | 0             | 5.49      | 3.1       | 1.9           | 6.7       | 0         | 0             | 3.4       |
| Ladakh                                   | 6.51      | 1.08          | 4.9       | 5.1       | 2.7           | 11.6      | 4.3       | 5.8           | 19.8      |
| Lakshadweep                              | 0.45      | 2.6           | 0         | 4.6       | 7.7           | 9.8       | 2.3       | 3.1           | 2.6       |
| Madhya Pradesh                           | 3.08      | 8.82          | 10.14     | 6.8       | 10.1          | 21.4      | 1         | 6.7           | 17.7      |
| Maharashtra                              | 0         | 1.53          | 10.72     | 5         | 5.8           | 16        | 0         | 0.6           | 10.1      |
| Manipur                                  | 13.26     | 5.59          | 1.27      | 12.9      | 8.9           | 13.5      | 4.5       | 3.5           | 15.3      |
| Meghalaya                                | 9.84      | 10.64         | 21.68     | 13.6      | 16.4          | 28.9      | 7.5       | 12.4          | 22        |
| Mizoram                                  | 6.35      | 2.73          | 11.9      | 14.8      | 10.5          | 24        | 3.5       | 5.9           | 14.8      |
| Nagaland                                 | 5.04      | 4             | 17.52     | 9.8       | 9             | 21.5      | 4.5       | 5.8           | 11.6      |
| Odisha                                   | 0         | 7.31          | 27.29     | 0         | 3.1           | 17.7      | 0         | 2             | 12.8      |
| Puducherry                               | 3.67      | 2.43          | 6.31      | 3.2       | 2.2           | 7.5       | 1.2       | 1.4           | 7.8       |
| Punjab                                   | 1.31      | 7.97          | 17.24     | 3.1       | 5.3           | 9.7       | 0.1       | 2.6           | 6         |
| Rajasthan                                | 3.57      | 4.32          | 7.65      | 4.4       | 5.7           | 11.9      | 7.6       | 6.8           | 11.1      |
| Sikkim                                   | 1.76      | 0             | 11.93     | 4.5       | 2.2           | 15.4      | 2.6       | 4.9           | 19        |
| Tamil Nadu                               | 0         | 0             | 4.47      | 2.3       | 0             | 10.3      | 0         | 0             | 7.7       |
| Telangana                                | 0         | 3.14          | 13.74     | 2.1       | 5             | 11.6      | 0         | 0             | 11.4      |
| Tripura                                  | 1.06      | 4.51          | 8.34      | 1.4       | 5.9           | 17.9      | 0.5       | 4.1           | 10.4      |
| Uttar Pradesh                            | 2.68      | 2.9           | 9.7       | 18.8      | 16            | 14.7      | 1.7       | 3.9           | 8.7       |
| Uttarakhand                              | 0.75      | 2.7           | 5.02      | 7.4       | 5.8           | 8.4       | 0.1       | 2.3           | 7         |
| West Bengal                              | 8.62      | 0             | 17.98     | 8.1       | 3.4           | 8.5       | 0         | 0             | 17.8      |

Source: UDISE+