The 15th Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2020 was recently released by the Pratham Education Foundation.
Pratham is one of the largest non-governmental organisations in the country which works towards providing quality education to underprivileged children.
The study aimed to look at various aspects of school education and its impact under COVID-19.
This included school enrolment patterns, household resources available, home support available for learning and access to learning material.
According to the survey, nearly 93.7% of the students from government schools in the Tamilnadu State had access to textbooks whereas only 68.1% of private school students had them.
Of all the children surveyed, 64.6% of them in Tamilnadu were found to have access to digital learning through smartphones.
Other data
West Bengal ranks first in decline of school dropout rate.
West Bengal also holds the first position in the country in terms of text books provided to the students with 99.7 per cent coverage.