Private Preference: Declining Enrolment in Government Schools

The latest statistics brought out by the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA) on the state of education and school enrolment in the country show a dismaying trend from the point of view of government schools. Between 2009-10 and 2010-11, enrolment in government primary schools fell by 21 lakh while that in private primary schools rose by 11 lakh. This seems to conform to the trend underlined by ASER and several other reports, that though private schools may be infrastructurally inferior to public ones, students in private schools perform much better than their public school counterparts.

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