Lok Sabha Question No. 727 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-12-04
Subject: Status of EMRSs
Ministry: TRIBAL AFFAIRS
Asked by: Shri Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF TRIBAL AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 727

TO BE ANSWERED ON 04.12.2025

## STATUS OF EMRSs

## 727. SHRI JAGADISH CHANDRA BARMA BASUNIA:

Will the Minister of TRIBAL AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) the amount of funds sanctioned, allocated and utilised under Eklavya Model Residential School (EMRS) since the inception of the scheme, State-wise/Union Territory-wise and year-wise;
- (b) the faculty and non-faculty vacancies in EMRS as of 1 November 2025, category-wise and State-wise;
- (c) the number of faculty and non-faculty positions sanctioned in EMRS, category-wise and State-wise;
- (d) the number of EMRS with no faculty, less than 10 faculty members and less than 20 faculty members, category-wise; and
- (e) the number of students who have dropped out of EMRS since the inception of the scheme, year-wise and State-wise?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR TRIBAL AFFAIRS (SHRI DURGADAS UIKEY)

- (a)       Details of funds Sanctioned and released under the scheme of EMRS over the years are as under:

Rs. in Crore

|   Sr. No. | Financial Year     | Funds Allocated (RE)   | Actual Expenditure   |
|-----------|--------------------|------------------------|----------------------|
|         1 | 2019-20            | -                      | -                    |
|         2 | 2020-21            | 1,200.00               | 936.28               |
|         3 | 2021-22            | 1,153.00               | 1,322.78             |
|         4 | 2022-23            | 1,999.90               | 2,014.95             |
|         5 | 2023-24            | 2,471.81               | 2,446,24             |
|         6 | 2024-25            | 4,748.92               | 4,713,21             |
|         7 | 2025-26 (Proposed) | 5,326.98               | 2,421.06             |

The State-wise/Union Territory-wise and  year-wise funds released for the establishment and operation of EMRS since inception till 29.11.2025 are given at Annexure I .

- (b)  to  (d)          31  teaching  posts  and  21  non-teaching  posts  are  sanctioned  per  EMRS  for  EMRSs  with classes upto class 12th having a full strength of 480 students. NESTS carried out its first drive for direct recruitment  of  10391  posts  through  ESSE-2023  and  selected  teaching  and  non-teaching  staff  have  been posted in various EMRSs. In addition to the direct recruitment, NESTS also has advised State Governments

to depute staff on deputation. Further, directions have been issued to State EMRS Societies to engage guest teachers against vacancies, and non-teaching staff on outsourcing basis/local engagement, so that academic activities are not hampered.

- (e) The State/UT-wise details of dropout rates of students for the last five years are given at Annexure II.

Annexure as referred in part (a) of the reply to Lok Sabha Unstarred question No. 727 for 04.12.2025 raised by Shri Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia regarding 'Status of EMRSs'

## STATE-WISE/UNION TERRITORY-WISE AND YEARWISE FUNDS RELEASED FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF EMRS SINCE INCEPTION TILL 29.11.2025

Rs. In Lakhs

|   S. No. | Name of the State/UT   | 2019- 20   | 2020-21   | 2021-22   | 2022-23   | 2023-24   | 2024-25   | 2025.26   |
|----------|------------------------|------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh         | -          | 6,199.12  | 14,591.28 | 12,600.57 | 10,795.05 | 23,663.34 | 16,873.23 |
|        2 | Arunachal Pradesh (NE) | -          | 200.24    | 119.54    | 1,010.87  | 693.91    | 2,004.18  | 3,928.29  |
|        3 | Assam (NE)             | -          | 750.00    | 1,800.00  | 1,433.65  | 2,732.67  | 10,654.29 | 6,234.79  |
|        4 | Bihar                  | -          | 10.00     | -         | -         | 8.95      | 34.12     | 974.15    |
|        5 | Chhattisgarh           | -          | 6,968.12  | 13,259.66 | 19,435.93 | 15,888.89 | 87,116.18 | 29,353.98 |
|        6 | Dadra &Nagar Haveli    | -          | 95.70     | 252.55    | 568.22    | 163.45    | 335.72    | 297.16    |
|        7 | Delhi                  |            |           |           |           |           | 5,170.84  | 93.76     |
|        7 | Gujarat                | -          | 4,755.86  | 1,060.00  | 10,088.95 | 15,667.55 | 27,426.87 | 13,309.56 |
|        8 | Himachal Pradesh       | -          | 255.06    | 599.11    | 483.18    | 829.76    | 1,573.21  | 900.10    |
|        9 | Jammu &Kashmir         | -          | -         | 392.40    | 1,200.00  | 891.40    | 824.01    | 859.91    |
|       10 | Jharkhand              | -          | 2,205.73  | 11,309.20 | 23,562.27 | 23,915.13 | 64,433.10 | 39,083.12 |
|       11 | Karnataka              | -          | 2,495.83  | 3,672.86  | 1,768.84  | 2,677.67  | 7,931.85  | 2,557.52  |
|       12 | Kerala                 | -          | -         | 229.56    | 1,515.66  | 249.00    | 1,252.21  | 1,375.54  |
|       13 | Ladakh                 | -          | -         | 10.00     | 450.00    | 800.00    | 17.41     | 400.00    |
|       14 | Madhya Pradesh         | -          | 14,459.36 | 3,560.00  | 31,817.79 | 13,157.19 | 37,322.68 | 21,569.51 |
|       15 | Maharashtra            | -          | 2,787.16  | 4,393.74  | 12,919.16 | 8,525.91  | 30,480.89 | 14,063.89 |
|       16 | Manipur (NE)           | -          | 1,268.00  | 398.08    | 2,369.98  | 3,044.92  | 2,408.14  | 10,268.77 |
|       17 | Meghalaya (NE)         | -          | 1,123.45  | 1,100.00  | 800.00    | 21,014.66 | 31,442.72 | 5,714.37  |
|       18 | Mizoram (NE)           | -          | 3,283.73  | 6,085.41  | 2,094.54  | 1,242.52  | 14,602.86 | 3,350.92  |

| 19   | Nagaland (NE)   | -   | 5,885.51   | 9,481.60   | 557.71                                                | 18,377.12   | 698.27    | 511.65      |
|------|-----------------|-----|------------|------------|-------------------------------------------------------|-------------|-----------|-------------|
| 20   | Odisha          | -   | 6,174.27   | 10,648.82  | 28,164.31                                             | 48,934.80   | 64,195.55 | 32,546.55   |
| 21   | Rajasthan       | -   | 12,944.17  | 18,214.71  | 19,463.30                                             | 13,687.79   | 14,316.06 | 9,540.99    |
| 22   | Sikkim (NE)     | -   | 800.33     | 1,037.88   | 1,047.35                                              | 1,118.83    | 1,058,36  | 1,146.47    |
| 23   | Tamil Nadu      | -   | 1,225.14   | 1,190.62   | 1,098.78                                              | 1,099.80    | 1,738.95  | 1,661.45    |
| 24   | Telangana       | -   | 9,517.30   | 19,695.52  | 12,794.53                                             | 14,276.17   | 16,804.36 | 11,336.27   |
| 25   | Tripura (NE)    | -   | 6,064.89   | 5,715.44   | 6,435.19                                              | 6,670.35    | 11,718.41 | 10,019.18   |
| 26   | Uttar Pradesh   | -   | 386.68     | 337.49     | 596.23                                                | 624.14      | 1,379.74  | 864.74      |
| 27   | Uttarakhand     | -   | 321.28     | 598.39     | 474.95                                                | 1,537.53    | 3,856.71  | 2,370.75    |
| 28   | West Bengal     | -   | 2,062.45   | -          | 2,303.67                                              | 1,869.70    | 1,789.50  | 900.00      |
|      | Total           | -   |            |            | 92,239.381,29,753.861,97,055.632,30,494.864,66,250.55 |             |           | 2,42,106,63 |

Annexure  as  referred  in  part  (e)  of  the  reply  to  Lok  Sabha  Unstarred  question  No.  727  for 04.12.2025 raised by Shri Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia regarding 'Status of EMRSs'

## THE STATE/UT-WISE DETAILS OF DROPOUT RATES OF STUDENTS

| S. No.   | State                               | 2024-25          | 2024-25    | 2023-24          | 2023-24    | 2022-23          | 2022-23    | 2021-22          | 2021-22    | 2020-21   |
|----------|-------------------------------------|------------------|------------|------------------|------------|------------------|------------|------------------|------------|-----------|
| S. No.   | State                               | No. of Student s | % Dropou t | No. of Student s | % Dropou t | No. of Student s | % Dropou t | No. of Student s | % Dropou t | 2020-21   |
| 1.       | Andhra Pradesh                      | 66               | 0.67       | 7                | 0.08       | -                | -          | -                | -          |           |
| 2.       | Chhattisgar h                       | 88               | 0.36       | 46               | 0.21       | 17               | 0.09       | 2                | 0.01       |           |
| 3.       | Dadra& Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu | 5                | 1.45       | -                | -          | -                | -          | -                | -          |           |
| 4.       | Gujarat                             | 7                | 0.06       | 20               | 0.18       | 6                | 0.05       | -                | -          |           |
| 5.       | Himachal Pradesh                    | 2                | 0.22       | -                | -          | -                | -          | -                | -          |           |
| 6.       | Jammu& Kashmir                      | 3                | 0.33       | 1                | 0.17       | -                | -          | -                | -          |           |
| 7.       | Jharkhand                           | 6                | 0.18       | 5                | 0.16       | 30               | 0.94       | 25               | 0.82       |           |
| 8.       | Karnataka                           | 9                | 0.20       | 2                | 0.05       | 9                | 0.22       | 23               | 0.57       |           |
| 9.       | Kerala                              | -                | -          | -                | -          | -                | -          | -                | -          |           |
| 10.      | Madhya Pradesh                      | 71               | 0.28       | 42               | 0.18       | 101              | 0.42       | 14               | 0.06       |           |
| 11.      | Maharashtra                         | 68               | 0.67       | 24               | 0.27       | 8                | 0.10       | 3                | 0.04       |           |
| 12.      | Manipur                             | 6                | 0.42       | 7                | 0.49       | 1                | 0.07       | 1                | 0.07       |           |
| 13.      | Mizoram                             | 13               | 0.69       | 1                | 0.08       | -                | -          | -                | -          |           |
| 14.      | Nagaland                            | 1                | 0.13       | 3                | 0.42       | -                | -          | 2                | 0.30       |           |
| 15.      | Odisha                              | 87               | 0.75       | 84               | 0.87       | 24               | 0.28       | 6                | 0.08       |           |
| 16.      | Rajasthan                           | 45               | 0.47       | 23               | 0.27       | 29               | 0.35       | 2                | 0.03       |           |
| 17.      | Sikkim                              | 2                | 0.16       | 1                | 0.08       | -                | -          | -                | -          |           |
| 18.      | Tamil Nadu                          | 1                | 0.04       | 14               | 0.63       | -                | -          | -                | -          |           |

| 19.   | Telangana     | 37   | 0.40   |   31 |   0.38 | 8   | 0.11   | -   | -    |
|-------|---------------|------|--------|------|--------|-----|--------|-----|------|
| 20.   | Tripura       | 12   | 0.57   |    2 |   0.1  | 1   | 0.05   | -   | -    |
| 21.   | Uttar Pradesh | 18   | 2.02   |    7 |   1.07 | 4   | 0.65   | 33  | 6.88 |
| 22.   | Uttarakhand   | -    | -      |    1 |   0.1  | -   | -      | -   | -    |
| 23.   | West Bengal   | 5    | 0.16   |    8 |   0.28 | 3   | 0.12   | -   | -    |
|       | Grand Total   | 552  | 0.40   |  329 |   0.27 | 241 | 0.21   | 111 | 0.11 |

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