Education For All in India with Focus on Elementary Education: Current Status, Recent Initiatives And Future Prospects

Statistical Statements II   Table_12: Growth in School Enrolment Table_13: Share of Girls Enrolment Table14: Gross Enrolment Ratio Table_15: Enrolment and Attendance Ratio Table_16: Retention Rate Table_17: Repetition Rates in Primary Grades Table_18: Rates of Efficiency Table_19: Transition Rates at the All India Level Table_20: State-specific Transition Rates Table_21: Out of School Children Table_22: Likely Year of Achievement of UPE/UEE

 

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Table 12: Growth in School Enrolment

                                                                                                                                                   (In Million)

             * Provisional, Source  : MHRD (2000a). The author computed growth rates (1990-98).

 

Table 13 : Share of Girls Enrolment at the Primary and Upper  Primary    Levels of Education, All India : 1950-51 to 1998-99 (In Percentage)

1950-51                                                 28.13                                                 16.13

1960-61                                                 32.57                                                 24.32

1970-71                                                 37.37                                                 29.32

1980-81                                                 38.62                                                 32.85

1990-91                                                 41.48                                                 36.76

             * Provisional, Source : MHRD (2000a).

 

                                                                                                  Table 14: Gross Enrolment Ratio, All India Level: 1950-51 to 1998-99

Year	Primary		Upper Primary
	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls
1950-51	60.6	24.8	20.6	4.6
1960-61	82.6	41.4	33.2	11.3
1970-71	95.5	60.5	46.5	20.8
1980-81	95.8	64.1	54.3	28.6
1990-91	114.0	85.5	76.6	47.0
1998-99*	100.9	82.9	65.3	49.1

                  * Provisional,  Source: MHRD (2000a).

                                                                                                                       Table 15: State-specific Enrolment and Attendance Ratio

	RATIO, 1997-98		ATTENDANCE RATIO, 1995-96
	PRIMARY		GROSS		NET		AGE-SPECIFIC
STATE	GER	NER	P	UP	P	UP	6-10	11-13
Andhra Pradesh	90	69	86	56	69	41	75	60
Arunachal Pradesh	97	69	90	65	69	29	65	82
Assam	109	98	91	73	98	43	73	80
Bihar	76	76	54	51	76	33	43	58
Goa	86	61	118	99	61	62	99	89
Gujarat	118	86	95	67	86	52	80	77
Haryana	84	73	106	86	73	52	83	87
Himachal Pradesh	90	68	118	97	68	54	91	94
J & K	67	55	88	81	55	53	69	82
Karnataka	113	89	87	61	89	50	75	70
Kerala	90	72	109	97	72	76	97	97
Madhya Pradesh	102	88	84	62	88	35	64	67
Maharashtra	113	84	106	80	84	55	88	85
Manipur	86	68	91	93	68	43	69	87
Megahalaya	93	50	111	86	50	25	69	94
Mizoram	114	73	102	108	73	39	71	88
Nagaland	94	59	105	107	59	40	71	85
Orissa	91	70	75	59	70	45	63	66
Punjab	82	71	100	86	71	59	85	86
Rajasthan	97	72	74	56	72	35	58	64
Sikkim	113	61	118	75	61	33	77	90
Tamil Nadu	109	85	98	80	85	61	91	74
Tripura	88