Percentage of boys not going to school doubles in 2 years in Gujarat: Status of education report

According to the report, the fig of students going to backstage schools successful 2024, successful the 6 to 14 property group, has besides returned to pre-Covid levels — revealing a opposition to the authorities government’s earlier claims.

The study has further revealed that the percent of children not going to schoolhouse successful Gujarat fell betwixt 2018 and 2022 but accrued successful 2024.

The percent of 15-16 twelvemonth aged boys not going to schools has much than doubled from 4.2 per cent (in 2022) to 9.4 per cent (in 2024), arsenic per the report. In lawsuit of girls not enrolling successful schools, the percent accrued from 8 per cent to 10.5 per cent.

“Not successful school” includes children who person ne'er enrolled oregon person dropped out.

In presumption of backstage schools, successful 2018, the enrolment stood astatine 12.4 per cent which declined to 8 per cent successful 2022 and returned to 12.4 per cent successful 2024, according to the report.

A caller authorities authorities release, however, stated that during the world league 2024-25, a full of 2,29,747 students, from Balvatika (pre-primary) to Class 12, had near backstage schools for authorities ones successful Gujarat.

For the 14th ASER 2024 report, 26 districts of the authorities were sampled — barring the recently formed 7 — utilizing Census 2011 frame. The study covered 780 villages surveying 24,746 children successful the property radical of 3-16 years crossed the state.

In these 780 villages, 680 authorities schools were surveyed for the schoolhouse infrastructure report.

A full of 5,332 households were covered successful the 26 districts.

The sampling enactment process included 30 randomly selected villages successful each territory and 20 randomly selected households successful each village.

From 2010 to 2024, the fig of schools with an enrolment of 60 oregon little accrued from 4.6 per cent to 14.4 per cent, according to the report. In 2022, 17.2 per cent children astatine 3 years of property were not successful pre-school oregon schoolhouse portion 8.1 per cent 4-year-old children were not successful school. In 2024, this declined to 4.7 per cent for 3-year-olds and 3.8 per cent for 4-year-olds.

Reading and arithmetic levels

In agrarian Gujarat, determination has been an summation of 10.7 percent points successful 2024 compared to 2022 successful speechmaking levels of Class V children enrolled successful authorities schools. However, connected the different hand, mathematics numbers person not changed much.

Pointing to a betterment from the ‘learning loss’ witnessed aft the pandemic, among Class V children successful authorities schools, successful reading, 2024 figures are higher than 2022.

In 2024, 14.3 per cent Class V students could lick Class II 3-digit by 1-digit part problems portion 46.3 per cent students could bash Class II reading.

Further, arsenic per the Gujarat agrarian 2024 ASER, among Class VIII students, speechmaking level has accrued since 2022, surpassing the pre-Covid levels among Class VIII students — from 52.4 to 75.8 per cent — an summation driven by some authorities and backstage schools; arithmetic levels declined from 31.8 to 30.3 per cent.

These are Class VIII students who tin astatine slightest work a Class II level substance and lick a 3-digit by 1-digit part occupation in  Gujarat (rural).

Digital literacy

Despite Gujarat having a higher percent of adolescents aged betwixt 14-16 years having entree to smartphones than the nationalist levels — 96 per cent against 89 per cent of the nationalist percent — it has acold little ownership than the nationalist levels. Against 31.4 per cent adolescents crossed the state with ownership of smartphones, lone 18.6 per cent successful Gujarat ain phones.

In integer literacy successful agrarian Gujarat, 12.9 per cent girls successful the property radical of 14-16 twelvemonth person their ain smartphones against 24.6 per cent boys, according to the report.

Nearly 96 per cent of girls and boys person a smartphone astatine home. While 85.6 per cent boys tin usage a smartphone , successful presumption of girls, the fig is 79.5 per cent.