Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) report was released by the Union Ministry of Education.
A total of 24.8 crore students enrolled in the academic year 2023-24.
The total enrolment of students has been dropped by over a crore in 2023-24 as compared to the previous years
In 2018-19, the total enrolment of students in school was 26.02 crore, which increased in 2019-20 by 1.6% and crossed 26.45 crore.
This was an increase of more than 42 lakh students.
The enrolments slightly fell in 2020-21 as compared to 2019-20.
In 2021-22 as compared to 2020-21, total enrolment increased by 0.76%.
Even according to data from back in 2012-13, the total enrolment was 26.3 crore.
In 2022-23, there was a drop in enrolment with 25.18 crore students being registered and there was a further fall in 2023-24 to 24.8 crore in the total enrolment.
This was a drop of 6% (nearly 1.22 crore students) as compared to 2018-19.
In 2018-19, 13.53 crore boys were enrolled, this saw a drop to 12.87 crore enrolments in 2023-24 a decrease of 4.87%.
While enrolment of girls decreased from 12.49 crore in 2018-19 to 11.93 crore in 2023-24, a decrease of 4.48%.
Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra saw among the highest drop in the enrolments.
In Telangana, Punjab, West Bengal, Haryana, Gujrat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Bihar, the percentage of available schools is significantly less as compared to enrolled students, indicating better utilisation of infrastructure
The representation of minorities in total enrolment stood at around 20 per cent.
Among the minorities, 79.6 per cent were Muslims, 10 per cent Christians, 6.9 per cent Sikhs, 2.2 per cent Buddhists, 1.3 per cent Jains, and 0.1 per cent Parsis.
At the national level, 26.9 per cent students registered in UDISE+ were from the general category, 18 per cent from Scheduled Caste, 9.9 per cent from Scheduled Tribe, and 45.2 per cent from the Other Backward Class category.