New Delhi: With the increase in participation, the availability of better textbooks and increased access to digital devices, school education in Indian countryside seems to be back on the recovery path.
Even as a result of losing learning and the path to full recovery still causes challenges, annual status of educational survey report (Rural) (Aser-2021), pointing towards this positive sign, also shows that the government-managed school system is responding more Good for pandemic disorders than his personal partners.
This survey, conducted in 25 states and three UTS, has revealed a significant increase in children who take paid tuition during interruptions caused by Covid.
The report highlights that compared to 80.5% of the registered children who have the current textbook in 2020, increased to 91.9% this year.
When education shifts to online mode because the school is closed since March 2020, ‘Digital Divide’ is a great concern and has been highlighted in a report prepared by several government and non-government institutions in 2020.
However, Aser 2021 shows that divisions have been significantly bridged 36.5% in 2018 and 61.8% by 2020, 67.6% of the registered children now have a telephone available at home.
While in 2020 it was found that Post Lockdown “Smartphone has been purchased for a study for one in 10 children”, this year’s proportion has increased to 27.9%.
Also the gap access to devices between students from government schools and private schools has also fallen.
However, the cause of worry is that “having a smartphone at home does not automatically translate to children who have access to the device”, as 26.2% of all children in Indian countryside which have smartphones at home do not have access to there and 47% Get access “sometimes”.
There are also substantial variations in access to smartphones because more children in higher classes have access compared to students at the lower level.
Registration in government rural schools crosses 70%, even higher than pre-covid days.
Conversely, after a stable increase in private school registration from 2006 to 2014, it added to the mid-30% and significantly decreased for 24.4%.
Genderwise registration in government schools for girls is 80% in 2021.
State, up (13.2%) and Kerala (11.9%) registered the maximum increase in government school registration while the lowest increase was in Jharkhand (2 , 8%), Bihar (2.8%) and West Bengal (3.9%), were significantly lower than the national increase of 6.1% during the number 2018.
Other key findings from this survey were that compared to the days Pre-covid, when the proportion of rural students who took tuition fees below 30%, equal to increased to 32.5% by 2020 and 39.2% by 2021.