More than a quarter of all school children in India are now studying in English secondary schools even though Hindi remains so far this is the largest teaching media, accounting of more than 42% of total registration.
Among countries that have more children in the British medium than in vernacular are Punjab, Haryana and Delhi, in addition to most of the southern states and several states and the territory of the trade union.
It was revealed in the latest Udise (Unified District Information for Education) report for 2019-20 which covers around 26.5 children crore from the basic level to high school in more than 15 lakh schools.
The anecdotal evidence shows that in many of which is called secondary school-English, instructions are often given in local languages, but the increase in registration in such schools shows aspirational desires.
The biggest increase in the proportion of children who choose English media has been in Haryana, leap more than 23 percentage points, compared with 27.6% of students in 2014-15.
Telangana follows, with a leap of 21.7 percentage points put 73.8% of students in English media.
Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have the smallest proportion of students studying in vernacular media, Telugu.
Telangana has less than a quarter studying in Telugu media, while in Andhra, it’s less than a third.
Registration in Malayalam Medium also grisses quickly, down to almost 35% from 46% in 2014-15.
While only Telangana and Kerala among larger countries have more than half of students enrolled in English high school in 2014-15, since then, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have also joined the club.
In the past five years, England raced to overtake Tamil as a preferred teaching media in Tamil Nadu: from 42.6%, the proportion of students jumped to 57.6%.
Karnataka remains the only southern state where vernacular secondary schools have more students (53.5%) than middle English, although the English part has surged with almost 20 percentage points.
Delhi, Haryana and Punjab are the only states north where vernacular media has been returned by English.
While Delhi may have a higher proportion of students in English media, almost 60%, an increase in the English media share in Delhi for five years before the current report is a simple percentage point of 7.6 compared to the big leap witnessed in Haryana.
In Punjab, the English part rose from 37.6% to 51%.
Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand are two other Hindi states who see considerable growth in the proportion of students in English media.
Although there is a stable increase in the proportion of students who choose English as a medium of teaching in all countries, the increase is very small in most Hindi belt countries.
However, the smallest proportion of students studying in English media is in West Bengal, only 5.3%, compared to 89.8% in Bengali media.
This, combined with the proportion of high students in Bengali Media in Tripura (80%), made Bengali third largest instruction language in India (6.7%), followed by Marathi (5.6%).
Odisha (9.5%) and Bihar (10%) are two other states with the smallest proportion of students in English media.
The proportion of the highest English high school, more than 53%, among greater schools is from grade 1 to grade 10 or 12, high school or higher.
This stock is one of the lowest (12.3%) in elementary school (class 1-5) because most state governments continue to emphasize the need to start children in their mother tongue.
Moderate schools are small proportions (only 4.7%) in a very small school category that only has top primary classes (6-8) or only 11% in schools with only senior middle class (only 9 & 10) ,
26% of schools in English media; Almost 60% in Delhi
