Story Behind the Numbers: Analysing SC, ST and OBC Dropouts in Higher Education - News18
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Story Behind the Numbers: Analysing SC, ST and OBC Dropouts in Higher Education - News18

News 18  

The statistics in numbers are faceless, blunt, and many times tell half-truths and encourage people to either misread or read them to prove their political arguments. Recently in the Rajya Sabha, while replying to the question of one of the members, the Union Minister of State for Education, Subhas Sarkar, presented data of the number of dropout students from Other Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in all Central Universities, Indian Institute of Technology, and the Indian Institute of Management of the country. Sarkar also explained the measures which the Ministry of Education, UGC and other education monitoring agencies are taking to minimise dropouts in higher educational institutions. The National Education Policy 2020, which has completed three years of implementation, has made various transformative provisions for SEDG students. A separate budget is allocated in NEP 2020 to evolve campuses for students of socio-economically deprived groups which contains SC/STs, OBCs and other minority social groups who come under the SEDG category.

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News 18  

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Live Mint  

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Live Mint  

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