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The Minister Of Human Resource Development Made A Statement Correcting The Reply ... on 8 January, 2019
Sixteenth Loksabha an> Title: The Minister of Human Resource Development made a statement correcting the reply to Starred Question No. 271 given on 31st December, 2018 asked by Shri B.V. Naik, MP regarding 'School Dropout'. THE MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI PRAKASH JAVADEKAR): Madam, I had answered the Lok Sabha Starred Question No.271 relating to `School Dropout’ asked by Shri B.V. Naik, Member of Parliament on 31.12.2018. Information was sought in the question regarding (a) the details of boys/girls who dropped out of schools" in the country during the last three years, State and year-wise; (b) whether any survey has been carried out to find out the reasons therefor; and (c) the details of schemes being implemented to impart school education and the amount spent thereon during the above period and the outcome thereof? Part (a) of the Statement laid on the Table of the house contained factual mistake in the Dropout rate relating to the year 2016-17, which needs to be corrected. Part (a) of the Statement laid on the Table of the House is proposed to be revised. The error is regretted. I hereby place on the Table of the House copies of the revised part (a) of the Statement in Reply to the Starred Question No.271 asked by Shri B.V. Naik, Member of Parliament on 31.12.2018. STATMENT MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT CORRECTING THE REPLY TO LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. *271 ASKED BY SH. B.V. NAIK REGARDING 'SCHOOL DROPOUT' ON 31.12.2018. Question Answer already given Revised answer (1) (2) (3)
(a) the details of boys/girls who dropped out of schools' in the country during the last three years, State and year-wise; (b) whether any survey has been carried out to find out the reasons therefor; and (c) the details of schemes being implemented to impart school education and the amount spent thereon during the above period and the outcome thereof? A Statement is laid on the Table of the House. In reply to part (a) in the statement referred, the following was stated with regard to Dropout rate at Secondary and Higher Secondary level for the year 2016-17. Annual Average Dropout Rate 2016-17 (All India) Level Boys Girls Total Secondary 22.11% 22.15% 22.13% Higher Secondary 13.18% 12.98% 13.09% In annexure 1(a) referred to in reply to part (a) of the question, data in the respect of Karnataka was stated as below. Sl. no.
State/UT Higher Secondary Boys Girls Total 17 Karnataka
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99.80% 99.93% All States 13.18% 12.98% 13.09% Sl. no.
State/UT Secondary Boys Girls Total 17 Karnataka 47.82% 48.42% 48.11% All States 22.11% 22.15% 22.13% Part (a) of the statement is being corrected as follows
(a) Dropout rate at Secondary and Higher Secondary level for the year 2016-17 is as below Annual Average Dropout Rate 2016-17 (All India) Level Boys Girls Total Secondary 19.97% 19.81% 19.89% Higher Secondary 6.37% 5.49% 5.95% The data given in annexure 1(a) referred to in reply to part (a) of the question is as below Sl. no.
State/UT Higher Secondary Boys Girls Total 17 Karnataka Incomplete data received All States 6.37% 5.49% 5.95% Sl. no.
State/UT Higher Secondary Boys Girls Total 17 Karnataka Incomplete data received All States 19.97% 19.81% 19.89% GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION& LITERACY LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.*271 TO BE ANSWERED ON 31.12.2018 School Dropout *271. SHRI B.V.NAIK:
Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:
(a) the details of boys/girls who dropped out of schools' in the country during the last three years, State and year-wise;
(b) whether any survey has been carried out to find out the reasons therefor; and
(c) the details of schemes being implemented to impart school education and the amount spent thereon during the above period and the outcome thereof?
ANSWER MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI PRAKASH JAVADEKAR)
(a), (b) and (c): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) to (c) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.*271 TO BE ANSWRED ON 31.12.2018 ASKED BY SHRI B.V. NAIK REGARDING ‘SCHOOL DROPOUT’
(a): The National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), an autonomous body under Ministry of Human Resource Development, collects information from all the schools (government, aided and private) annually on various educational indicators including drop-out rate across all States and UTs through Unified District Information System for Education (U-DISE). As per U-DISE data, annual average dropout rates in percentage are as under:
Years Annual Average Dropout Rate (All India) Boys Girls Total Primary Upper Second-
Higher Primary Upper Second-
Higher Primary Upper Second-
Higher Primary ary Secondary Primary ary Secondary Primary ary Secondary 2014- 6.84% 5.56%
20.09% 4.12% 6.49% 7.02% 20.19% 4.56% 6.67% 6.27% 20.14% 4.33% 15 2015- 4.36% 3.49% 17.21% 0.25% 3.88% 4.60% 16.88%
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4.13% 4.03% 17.06%
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16 2016- 6.40% 4.97% 22.11% 13.18% 6.30% 6.42% 22.15% 12.98 6.35% 5.67% 22.13% 13.09% 17 Source: U-DISE, 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17 Note -: ‘-‘ indicates negative dropout rate State-wise and year-wise dropout rates are at Annexures I(a), I(b) and I(c)
(b): Ministry of Human Resource Development has commissioned three independent surveys to estimate out of school children in the country. These surveys were conducted in the years 2005, 2009 and 2014. The All India survey of Out of School Children in 6-13 years age group conducted in 2014 revealed that there are 60.64 lakh out of school children in this age group, as compared to 134.6 lakh as per 2005 survey. The major reasons for out of school children reported in the survey are poverty/economic reason, child not interested in studies, child suffering with some disability or poor health, child too young to be attending school, child needed to help in domestic work, education not considered necessary by the parents or Head of the household etc.
(c): The Department of School Education and Literacy has launched the Samagra Shiksha - an Integrated Scheme for School Education as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme and it is being implemented throughout the country with effect from the year 2018-19. This programme subsumes the three erstwhile Centrally Sponsored Schemes of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and Teacher Education (TE). It is an overarching programme for the school education sector extending from pre-school to class XII and aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education at all levels of school education. It envisages the ‘school’ as a continuum from pre-school, primary, upper primary, secondary to senior secondary levels. The major interventions, across all levels of school education, under the scheme are: (i) Universal Access including Infrastructure Development and Retention; (ii) Gender and Equity; (iii) Inclusive Education; (iv) Quality; (v) Financial support for Teacher Salary; (vi) Digital initiatives;
(vii) Entitlements under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 including uniforms, textbooks etc.;(viii) Pre-school Education; (ix) Vocational Education; (x) Sports and Physical Education; (xi) Strengthening of Teacher Education and Training; (xii) Monitoring and (xiii) Programme Management. The main emphasis of the Scheme is on improving quality of school education and the strategy for all interventions would be to enhance the Learning Outcomes at all levels of schooling. It sees school education holistically without segmenting it into various levels of education. Its main features, inter alia, are as follows:
(i) Annual Grant of Rs. 5,000 to Rs. 20,000/- per school for strengthening of Libraries.
(ii) Composite school grant increased from Rs. 14,500-50,000 to Rs. 25,000-1 Lakh and to be allocated on the basis of school enrolment.
(iii) Annual Grant for sports equipments at the cost of Rs. 5000 for Primary Schools, Rs. 10,000 for upper primary schools and up to Rs. 25,000 for secondary and senior secondary schools.
(iv) Allocation for children with Special Needs (CwSN) increased from Rs. 3,000 to Rs. 3,500 per child per annum including a stipend of Rs. 200 per month for CWSN girls to be provided from Classes I to XII. – earlier it was only for classes IX to XII.
(v) Allocation for uniforms enhanced from Rs. 400 to Rs. 600 per child per annum.
(vi) Allocation for textbooks enhanced from Rs. 150/250 to Rs. 250/400 per child per annum.
(vii) Upgradation of Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) from Class 6-8 to Class 6-12.
(viii) Strengthening Teacher Education Institutions like SCERTs and DIETs to improve the quality of teachers with SCERT as the nodal institution for in-service and pre-service teacher training
(ix) Enhanced use of digital technology in education through smart classrooms, digital boards and DTH channels.
The detail of central share released and expenditure reported by the States and UTs since 2015-16 is as under:-
(Rs. in Lakh) Year Central share released Expenditure* 2015-16 SSA 2159014.41 4422718.48 RMSA 354492.77 668628.55 CSSTE 48870.04 43683.13 2016-17 SSA 2165744.85 4885824.93 RMSA 368826.95 738226.46 CSSTE 49536.57 45509.60 2017-18 SSA 2349425.43 4678063.52 RMSA 401387.78 812818.92 CSSTE 47838.25 42802.13 2018-19 (till 30.11.2018) Samagra Shiksha 1966826.71 1342129.20 *Note:Expenditure shown above (except CSSTE) is against receipts from Central release, State share release, Finance Commission Award and Miscellaneous incomes, if any. Expenditure for CSSTE is only against receipts from Central Share.
Due to various interventions implemented under SSA and RMSA, there have been improvements in overall educational scenario at elementary and secondary levels. As per UDISE 2015-16, Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) is 99.21% for primary and 92.81% for upper primary level, which indicates universal enrolment at primary level. The Pupil Teacher Ratio (PTR) has improved from 32 in 2009-10 to 25 in 2015-16. The transition rate from primary to upper primary has gone up from 85.17% in 2009-10 to 90.14% in 2014-15. In order to ensure quality elementary education, the Central Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Rules, 2010 have been amended on 20th February, 2017 to include reference on class-wise, subject-wise Learning Outcomes for all elementary classes. At the secondary level, GER has increased from 62.90% in 2009-10 (Source: Statistics of School Education) to 80.01% in 2015-16 (Source: UDISE). Gross Access Ratio has increased from 68.22 in 2011-12 to 86.48 in 2015-16.
***** ANNEXURE-I (a) ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.*271 TO BE ANSWRED ON 31.12.2018 ASKED BY SHRI B.V. NAIK REGARDING ‘SCHOOL DROPOUT’ Percentage of Dropout rate of state/UT: 2016-17 Slno.
State/UT Primary Upper Primary Secondary Higher Secondary Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total 1 A & N ISLANDS 2.03 1.25 1.65 1.50 2.03 1.76 7.89 6.80 7.36 22.59 10.78 16.79 2 ANDHRA PRADESH 1.91 1.90 1.90 0.64 1.16 0.89 49.63 50.40 50.00 ‐ ‐ ‐ 3 ARUNACHAL PRADESH 23.65 22.82 23.25 11.45
14.15 12.81 31.63 28.11 29.93 24.36 20.51 22.46 4 ASSAM 6.21 4.98 5.60 2.79 2.25 2.51 26.38 28.75 27.60 12.51 10.85 11.72 5 BIHAR 10.26 8.78 9.53 13.65 12.75 13.20 38.49 40.98 39.73 10.50 7.96 9.30 6 CHANDIGARH ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ 0.96 ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ 16.99 12.42 15.05 7 CHHATTISGARH 3.42 3.07 3.25 7.05 5.29 6.18 26.11 22.39 24.23 1.65 2.92 2.30 8 DADRA & NAGAR HAVELI ‐ ‐ ‐ 2.42 3.34 2.84 28.05 27.85 27.96 15.18 6.95 11.32 9 DAMAN & DIU ‐ ‐ ‐ 0.86 0.33 0.61 21.60 17.07 19.52 ‐ ‐ ‐ 10 DELHI ‐ ‐ ‐ 0.75 0.65 0.70 12.63 8.59 10.75 15.98 10.41 13.34 11 GOA 1.71 2.22 1.96 ‐ 1.27 ‐ 18.73 12.99 16.01 15.81 5.76 10.88 12 GUJARAT 0.92 1.04 0.98 5.01 8.33 6.51 25.60 21.91 24.08 6.94 6.09 6.56 13 HARYANA ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ 0.92 ‐ 12.07 12.28 12.16 2.69 4.09 3.31 14 HIMACHAL PRADESH 0.66 1.03 0.84 0.74 1.04 0.88 7.65 6.32 7.03 9.05 6.73 7.97 15 JAMMU & KASHMIR 13.44 14.92 14.15 8.72 11.78 10.18 23.32 25.53 24.35 11.65 11.62 11.64 16 JHARKHAND 15.54 15.90 15.71 19.22 19.99 19.61 36.17 37.12 36.64 28.28 28.06 28.18 17 KARNATAKA 0.85 1.96 1.39 2.93 4.65 3.76 47.82 48.42 48.11 ‐ 99.80 99.93 18 KERALA 0.11 0.04 0.08 ‐ 0.04 ‐ 15.58 9.78 12.76 2.97 1.24 2.07 19 LAKSHADWEEP 1.37 0.61 1.00 1.45 ‐ ‐ 5.68 5.91 5.80 5.71 2.22 3.70 20 MADHYA PRADESH 4.58 4.44 4.51 6.49 8.91 7.65 23.70 23.83 23.76 ‐ 0.00 ‐ 21 MAHARASHTRA 0.66 0.75 0.70 0.70 1.87 1.24 11.43 11.10 11.28 3.03 2.70 2.88 22 MANIPUR 15.69 17.92 16.79 12.67 12.86 12.76 21.14 20.96 21.05 12.87 10.65 11.81 23 MEGHALAYA 18.01 17.37 17.69 17.96 17.25 17.59 28.33 27.85 28.07 13.59 14.02 13.82 24 MIZORAM 15.24 15.49 15.36 10.63 9.06 9.88 32.47 28.87 30.67 7.26 5.62 6.42 25 NAGALAND 20.47 21.44 20.95 18.65 17.90 18.28 31.51 31.04 31.28 15.51 12.33 13.96 26 ODISHA 4.05 4.44 4.24 5.16 4.94 5.05 28.90 28.83 28.87 ‐ ‐ ‐ 27 PUDUCHERRY ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ 0.98 0.45 15.72 9.42 12.65 11.65 7.65 9.56 28 PUNJAB 2.99 2.64 2.83 2.92 2.84 2.89 9.14 7.88 8.60 6.97 4.79 6.00 29 RAJASTHAN 6.94 7.06 6.99 3.65 5.17 4.34 15.14 15.25 15.19 ‐ ‐ ‐ 30 SIKKIM 6.06 4.09 5.13 7.55 7.73 7.64 25.73 22.70 24.15 21.97 17.45 19.49 31 TAMIL NADU 0.12 0.81 0.46 1.52 1.15 1.34 13.65 6.26 10.03 4.88 2.88 3.83 32 TELANGANA 7.45 7.76 7.60 5.65 5.59 5.62 23.45 21.50 22.49 23.14 20.38 21.73 33 TRIPURA 4.33 4.44 4.39 5.91 4.77 5.34 29.20 30.32 29.76 11.98 10.30 11.21 34 UTTAR PRADESH 11.44 10.85 11.15 0.64 7.13 3.87 12.54 12.90 12.71 8.01 5.19 6.67 35 UTTARAKHAND 5.68 5.46 5.58 2.96 3.18 3.06 9.94 8.15 9.09 2.16 1.22 1.70 36 WEST BENGAL 8.22 7.88 8.05 11.33 6.71 8.95 26.53 27.27 26.93 14.91 14.67 14.79 All States 6.40 6.30 6.35 4.97 6.42 5.67 22.11 22.15 22.13 13.18 12.98 13.09 Note: Due to in-migration & lack of data on lateral and late entrants, dropout rate can be negative. Negative dropout rates are not reported and are indicates by '-' symbol. ANNEXURE-I (b) ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.*271 TO BE ANSWRED ON 31.12.2018 ASKED BY SHRI B.V. NAIK REGARDING ‘SCHOOL DROPOUT’ Percentage of Dropout rate of state/UT: 2015‐16 Slno.
State/UT Primary Upper Primary Secondary Higher Secondary Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total 1 A & N ISLANDS 0.47 0.55 0.51 1.44 1.95 1.69 11.47 8.16 9.87 21.05 12.21 16.93 2 ANDHRA PRADESH 6.57 6.89 6.72 5.09 5.32 5.20 15.81 15.60 15.71 ‐ ‐ ‐ 3 ARUNACHAL PRADESH 11.51 10.09 10.82 5.31 8.08 6.71 18.33 15.81 17.11 19.37 17.44 18.42 4 ASSAM 16.07 14.65 15.36 10.45 10.56 10.51 24.64 29.28 27.06 ‐ ‐ ‐ 5 BIHAR 0.35 ‐ ‐ 4.14 4.01 4.08 25.21 26.62 25.90 ‐ ‐ ‐ 6 CHANDIGARH ‐ ‐ ‐ 0.01 0.96 0.44 ‐ ‐ ‐ 12.10 8.41 10.55 7 CHHATTISGARH 3.08 2.74 2.91 6.47 5.22 5.85 22.62 19.92 21.26 1.37 4.14 2.76 8 DADRA & NAGAR HAVELI 1.60 1.31 1.47 3.70 4.40 4.02 18.19 15.08 16.77 13.45 4.77 9.47 9 DAMAN & DIU 1.80 0.29 1.11 3.14 3.07 3.11 34.45 29.73 32.27 44.38 36.05 40.48 10 DELHI ‐ ‐ ‐ 0.95 0.55 0.76 13.55 9.80 11.81 20.91 13.15 17.32 11 GOA 0.63 0.84 0.73 ‐ 0.21 0.07 14.15 7.68 11.15 18.27 9.39 13.91 12 GUJARAT 0.82 0.98 0.89 4.65 8.54 6.41 26.29 23.24 25.04 8.40 5.26 7.04 13 HARYANA 5.54 5.69 5.61 5.50 6.18 5.81 16.35 15.30 15.89 6.24 5.12 5.75 14 HIMACHAL PRADESH 0.46 0.83 0.64 0.50 1.27 0.87 6.31 5.80 6.07 9.02 5.57 7.41 15 JAMMU & KASHMIR 6.98 6.59 6.79 4.98 5.95 5.44 16.97 17.65 17.28 13.85 11.20 12.65 16 JHARKHAND 5.91 5.03 5.48 9.01 8.96 8.99 23.45 24.56 24.00 2.72 4.18 3.41 17 KARNATAKA 2.03 2.01 2.02 3.46 4.27 3.85 27.71 24.52 26.18 5.97 ‐ 1.96 18 KERALA ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ 0.00 ‐ 14.96 9.52 12.32 1.54 ‐ 0.47 19 LAKSHADWEEP ‐ ‐ ‐ 2.37 3.18 2.78 8.82 4.96 6.76 3.00 3.21 3.12 20 MADHYA PRADESH 6.48 6.72 6.59 7.78 10.70 9.20 23.71 25.97 24.77 ‐ 0.73 ‐ 21 MAHARASHTRA 1.26 1.25 1.26 0.89 2.83 1.79 13.11 12.58 12.87 2.02 1.60 1.83 22 MANIPUR 9.50 9.83 9.66 3.61 4.80 4.20 12.94 15.86 14.38 ‐ ‐ ‐ 23 MEGHALAYA 10.35 8.56 9.46 6.77 6.30 6.52 20.80 20.27 20.52 ‐ ‐ ‐ 24 MIZORAM 10.17 10.03 10.10 5.46 4.06 4.78 23.02 20.73 21.88 9.00 4.85 6.91 25 NAGALAND 6.18 5.02 5.61 7.87 7.97 7.92 17.98 18.47 18.23 10.36 3.19 6.97 26 ODISHA 2.91 2.81 2.86 4.11 3.49 3.81 29.74 29.37 29.56 ‐ ‐ ‐ 27 PUDUCHERRY 0.36 0.38 0.37 0.44 0.69 0.56 14.94 9.36 12.19 5.40 3.69 4.50 28 PUNJAB 2.89 3.25 3.05 2.95 3.55 3.22 9.22 8.39 8.86 7.52 3.67 5.83 29 RAJASTHAN 5.02 5.02 5.02 2.54 3.73 3.07 13.54 13.40 13.48 ‐ ‐ ‐ 30 SIKKIM 3.75 0.62 2.27 2.07 1.08 1.57 17.58 14.39 15.89 12.48 11.17 11.76 31 TAMIL NADU ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ 11.67 4.36 8.10 4.59 2.34 3.41 32 TELANGANA 2.21 1.94 2.08 2.43 2.17 2.30 16.54 14.50 15.53 2.06 ‐ 0.77 33 TRIPURA 1.37 1.19 1.28 2.37 1.61 1.99 28.03 28.83 28.42 8.97 8.89 8.93 34 UTTAR PRADESH 9.08 8.04 8.58 0.78 4.61 2.70 9.89 10.60 10.22 1.79 2.45 2.10 35 UTTARAKHAND 4.37 3.67 4.04 0.79 1.62 1.19 11.26 9.46 10.40 3.40 2.61 3.01 36 WEST BENGAL 2.13 0.79 1.47 5.84 2.88 4.30 16.33 19.06 17.80 8.18 8.04 8.11 All States 4.36 3.88 4.13 3.49 4.60 4.03 17.21 16.88 17.06 0.25 ‐ ‐ Note: Due to in-migration & lack of data on lateral and late entrants, dropout rate can be negative. Negative dropout rates are not reported and are indicates by '-' symbol. ANNEXURE-I (c) ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.*271 TO BE ANSWRED ON 31.12.2018 ASKED BY SHRI B.V. NAIK REGARDING ‘SCHOOL DROPOUT’ Percentage of Dropout rate of state/UT: 2014-15 Slno.
State/UT Primary Upper Primary Secondary Higher Secondary Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total 1 A & N ISLANDS 1.35 1.06 1.21 ‐ 1.54 0.51 8.36 5.98 7.20 18.94 12.20 15.87 2 ANDHRA PRADESH 47.66 47.75 47.70 46.80 47.59 47.18 52.17 53.44 52.80 51.72 52.72 52.20 3 ARUNACHAL PRADESH 11.54 10.22 10.89 4.44 6.74 5.59 16.08 12.75 14.49 18.57 15.49 17.07 4 ASSAM 8.19 6.68 7.44 7.60 6.54 7.05 28.59 32.10 30.43 7.62 6.83 7.24 5 BIHAR 2.38 1.79 2.09 2.77 3.19 2.98 24.67 26.05 25.33 ‐ ‐ ‐ 6 CHANDIGARH ‐ ‐ ‐ 0.72 1.55 1.08 ‐ ‐ ‐ 13.24 8.49 11.28 7 CHHATTISGARH 1.45 1.38 1.42 4.09 3.51 3.80 24.10 22.72 23.41 ‐ 2.13 ‐ 8 DADRA & NAGAR HAVELI 1.05 2.17 1.57 3.31 5.09 4.13 30.02 26.83 28.59 7.07 5.33 6.24 9 DAMAN & DIU 1.06 0.59 0.85 3.42 3.72 3.56 19.46 20.33 19.86 14.48 4.89 9.86 10 DELHI ‐ ‐ ‐ 3.13 2.37 2.78 10.80 6.64 8.90 20.28 11.45 16.25 11 GOA 0.08 0.33 0.20 ‐ ‐ ‐ 11.68 7.19 9.58 18.21 8.38 13.36 12 GUJARAT 0.50 1.06 0.76 3.52 8.04 5.55 22.85 19.81 21.61 9.06 6.18 7.83 13 HARYANA 0.22 0.63 0.41 1.97 3.25 2.55 11.92 13.27 12.51 1.41 3.16 2.18 14 HIMACHAL PRADESH 0.57 0.34 0.46 0.60 0.98 0.78 9.32 8.83 9.09 8.44 5.54 7.07 15 JAMMU & KASHMIR 5.53 5.37 5.46 3.86 4.80 4.30 14.70 16.14 15.36 8.80 6.20 7.64 16 JHARKHAND 6.89 5.91 6.41 7.19 7.65 7.42 22.99 23.32 23.15 ‐ ‐ ‐ 17 KARNATAKA 2.42 2.21 2.32 2.31 2.73 2.51 28.49 26.57 27.57 ‐ ‐ ‐ 18 KERALA ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ 17.30 11.40 14.46 6.95 5.90 6.40 19 LAKSHADWEEP 0.00 ‐ ‐ 1.16 2.50 1.86 8.48 7.65 8.03 3.03 2.59 2.82 20 MADHYA PRADESH 9.91 10.40 10.14 9.88 13.57 11.70 25.21 27.91 26.47 0.52 2.83 1.55 21 MAHARASHTRA 0.51 0.59 0.55 ‐ 1.50 0.61 15.04 13.78 14.47 2.85 3.89 3.34 22 MANIPUR 17.27 18.74 18.00 7.48 6.54 7.02 12.35 15.28 13.81 3.30 3.08 3.20 23 MEGHALAYA 11.30 9.39 10.34 6.34 7.28 6.84 25.63 23.99 24.75 ‐ ‐ ‐ 24 MIZORAM 12.57 13.38 12.96 6.61 5.39 6.02 20.00 17.37 18.70 ‐ ‐ ‐ 25 NAGALAND 19.09 19.74 19.41 18.08 17.63 17.86 34.14 36.08 35.11 15.36 12.96 14.19 26 ODISHA 2.83 3.05 2.94 3.11 2.48 2.80 49.39 49.57 49.48 ‐ ‐ ‐ 27 PUDUCHERRY 0.76 0.57 0.66 0.37 0.83 0.60 18.22 10.02 14.24 13.24 9.28 11.16 28 PUNJAB 1.35 1.21 1.29 2.52 3.27 2.85 8.93 8.71 8.83 7.87 3.20 5.81 29 RAJASTHAN 7.76 9.12 8.39 4.49 7.95 6.03 17.85 20.06 18.77 ‐ ‐ ‐ 30 SIKKIM 5.55 3.49 4.57 6.35 3.98 5.14 13.74 12.14 12.89 14.11 11.92 12.91 31 TAMIL NADU 0.53 0.39 0.46 4.38 4.67 4.52 16.13 7.99 12.20 4.55 4.35 4.44 32 TRIPURA 3.63 3.52 3.58 3.21 2.20 2.72 24.51 25.70 25.09 9.15 9.06 9.11 33 UTTAR PRADESH 7.91 6.21 7.08 ‐ 2.43 0.53 7.26 7.35 7.30 ‐ ‐ ‐ 34 UTTARAKHAND 3.28 2.83 3.07 1.78 1.57 1.68 9.85 7.44 8.70 0.23 ‐ ‐ 35 WEST BENGAL 3.44 2.37 2.91 5.63 3.10 4.31 16.73 19.77 18.34 8.03 7.76 7.90 All States 6.84 6.49 6.67 5.56 7.02 6.27 20.09 20.19 20.14 4.12 4.56 4.33 Note: Due to in-migration & lack of data on lateral and late entrants, dropout rate can be negative. Negative dropout rates are not reported and are indicates by '-' symbol.