The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)” released its "State of the Education Report (SOER)-2021 for India: No Teachers, No Class".
It was released on the occasion of World Teacher’s Day (October 5th).
This is the third edition of the State of Education Report.
This year, the report focuses on the theme of “teachers, teaching and teacher education”.
As per the report, there are around 1.2 lakh single-teacher schools in India.
Three States with a high percentage of single-teacher schools are - Arunachal Pradesh (18.22%), Goa (16.08%) and Telangana (15.71%).
Findings in the report were prepared on the basis of analysis of Periodic Labour Force Survey and Unified District Information System for Education data.