School dropout rates go from bad to worse in Bihar and Assam
2 months, 3 weeks ago

School dropout rates go from bad to worse in Bihar and Assam

The Hindu  

There has been a marked improvement in the share of students continuing education into higher grades in 2024 compared to 2019, across India, without dropping out of school. Overall, of every 100 girls who started schooling, over 80 completed their secondary education without dropping out in 2024 compared to just 73.5 in 2019. Click to subscribe to our Data newsletter For instance, in Karnataka, of the 100 girls who started schooling only 76.5 completed secondary education without dropping out in 2024 compared to 79.3 in 2019. Of the 100 girls who started schooling only 40.3 completed secondary education without dropping out in 2024 compared to 51.6 of them in 2019. Similarly, of the 100 boys who started schooling, 88.3 completed secondary education in 2019, which improved to 95.7 in 2024.

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Tamil Nadu’s secondary school dropout rate at 7%, shows Union Ministry data
1 week, 2 days ago

Tamil Nadu’s secondary school dropout rate at 7%, shows Union Ministry data

The Hindu  

While Tamil Nadu’s school dropout rate has come down to 0% at the primary and middle school levels, the dropout rate at the secondary level is at 7%, according to data from the Union Ministry of Education. The data presented by the Ministry during the Lok Sabha session shows that the dropout rate at the secondary level has fluctuated from …

From The Hindu, March 10, 1975: Some schools in Kerala not getting enough students
2 weeks, 4 days ago

From The Hindu, March 10, 1975: Some schools in Kerala not getting enough students

The Hindu  

New Delhi, March 9: Primary schools in a few pockets in Kerala are faced with a unique problem — there are fewer children for enrolment. This phenomenon in a State with a high literacy rate was attributed by family planning authorities to a fall in the number of fresh births. Despite the decline in birth rate, improvement in general mortality …

Govt schools declined by 8%, private schools up by 14% in last 10 years: Data
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Govt schools declined by 8%, private schools up by 14% in last 10 years: Data

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI: The number of government schools declined by 8% but private schools increased by 14.9% in the past decade from 2014-15 to 2023-24, the government told Lok Sabha on Monday. There has been a decline of 89,441 government schools from 11,07,101 in 2014-15 to 10,17,660 in 2023-24 and an increase of 42,944 private schools from 2,88,164 to 3,31,108 in …

6 to 14 age group: Haryana govt schools score over private in learning gains in last 2 yrs, says report
1 month, 4 weeks ago

6 to 14 age group: Haryana govt schools score over private in learning gains in last 2 yrs, says report

Hindustan Times  

Students in the age group of 6 to 14 in Haryana’s government schools have higher learning gains than those studying in private schools in the last two years as they have improved in basic reading and arithmetic, the Annual Status of Education Report released by the Pratham Foundation said on Tuesday. The ASER report reveals that 53.9% of children enrolled …

School enrolment up in India but not learning outcomes: Education report highlights
1 month, 4 weeks ago

School enrolment up in India but not learning outcomes: Education report highlights

India Today  

Every year, the Annual Status of Education Report gives us a ground-level view of India’s education system, focusing on rural areas. The ASER 2024 report, based on household surveys across 618 rural districts, shows that India did take a step ahead in improving enrolment but learning outcomes are still suffering. STATE-WISE PERFORMANCE: DIFFERENT REGIONS, DIFFERENT CHALLENGES The report shows a …

ASER Report: Bihar joins national trend to show improvement, but still long way to go
2 months ago

ASER Report: Bihar joins national trend to show improvement, but still long way to go

Hindustan Times  

Like other states, Bihar has also witnessed improvement in the learning outcome, but the pace of progress is slower, says the Annual Status of Education Report – 2024, which was released on Tuesday. ASER Report: Bihar joins national trend to show improvement, yet long way to go The reading level of Class 5 students in government schools improved to 44.8% …

Learning levels dip in Andhra Pradesh & Telangana: ASER 2024
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2 months ago

Learning levels dip in Andhra Pradesh & Telangana: ASER 2024

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Annual Status of Education Report 2024, based on data collected till January 10, 2025, has revealed a concerning decline in learning levels among children in government schools of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. In both states, the percentage of children who could read Class II level text and perform basic subtraction declined significantly between 2018 and 2022, and while …

Why is there a drop in school enrolments? | Explained
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Why is there a drop in school enrolments? | Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: The total enrolment of students in schools across India studying from grade 1-12, dropped by over a crore in 2023-24 as compared to 2018-19. MoE officials in the UDISE+ reports have given a disclaimer that the UDISE+ reports of 2022-23 and 2023-24 are not strictly comparable to previous years reports because of a change in the …

Sharp fall in Madrasa and unrecognised school enrolments
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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Sharp fall in Madrasa and unrecognised school enrolments

The Hindu  

The number of students enrolled in Indian schools in 2023-24 declined by 1.22 crore compared with 2018-19, show data. There was a sharp drop in school enrolments among recognised Madrasa schools even as the number of recognised Madrasas and the number of teachers working in them increased. Chart 4 shows a break-up of student enrolments in other schools — separately …

Education System in Crisis: Why Are Young Indians Leaving School?
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Education System in Crisis: Why Are Young Indians Leaving School?

The Quint  

“India will grow only if India reads.” But is India truly reading? Over the last two years, 1.72 crore children have dropped out of school, marking the first major decline in six years. Reverse Migration which means during COVID-19, many families moved from cities to villages, shifting their children from private to government schools. The growing number of children leaving …

Filling the gaps in school education
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Filling the gaps in school education

Hindustan Times  

The UDISE -Plus data on enrolment and drop-out in schools paints a sobering picture of school education in the country. In the past several years, there has been a major effort on the part of the State to expand public schooling and ensure quality education across social categories. State governments — and political parties — have also started investing more …

37 lakh drop in school enrolments in 2023-24, new data system tracks real figures
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2 months, 3 weeks ago

37 lakh drop in school enrolments in 2023-24, new data system tracks real figures

India Today  

India witnessed a steep decline in school enrolments last year, with figures dropping by 37 lakh, according to UDISE+ 2023-24 data from the Ministry of Education. For the first time in years, school enrolment in India has seen such a sharp decline, dropping by over a crore across the 2022-23 and 2023-24 academic years. Managed by the Education Ministry, it …

Fewer dropouts but lower enrolment: A snapshot of India's education landscape
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Fewer dropouts but lower enrolment: A snapshot of India's education landscape

India Today  

The latest data from the Union Education Ministry’s Unified District Information System for Education Plus reveals a decline in dropout rates across all school levels between 2022-23 and 2023-24. Similarly, the dropout rate at the secondary level also declined from 13.8 to 10.9 per cent. In 2023-24, at the preparatory level, the dropout rate for boys was 3.9 per cent, …

School enrolment down by over 1 crore in 2023-24, says govt. report
2 months, 3 weeks ago

School enrolment down by over 1 crore in 2023-24, says govt. report

The Hindu  

The total enrolment of students has dropped by over a crore in 2023-24 as compared to the previous years, shows the latest data released by the Ministry of Education. A total of 24.8 crore students enrolled in the academic year 2023-24, Unified District Information System for Education Plus report released by the Ministry said. In 2018-19, Bihar reflected an enrolment …

37 lakh drop in School Enrollment: Ministry of Education reports decline in 2023-24
2 months, 3 weeks ago

37 lakh drop in School Enrollment: Ministry of Education reports decline in 2023-24

India TV News  

The Ministry of Education has revealed a troubling decline in school enrolment, with a staggering 37 lakh fewer students enrolling in the academic year 2023-24. The data is shared by the Ministry of Education's Unified District Information System for Education, which is a data aggregation platform maintained by the education ministry to collate school education data from across the country. …

1.17 million children identified as ‘Out of School’, govt tells LS
3 months, 2 weeks ago

1.17 million children identified as ‘Out of School’, govt tells LS

Hindustan Times  

Around 1.17 million children across India have been identified as those not enrolled in primary, secondary and senior secondary education, or Out of School Children, for the year 2024-25, the Union government informed the Lok Sabha on Monday. Uttar Pradesh was followed by Jharkhand and Assam, which reported 65,070 and 63,848 OoSC, respectively, for 2024-25, according to data provided by …

Over 1.1 million children out of school in 2024-25: Education ministry
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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Over 1.1 million children out of school in 2024-25: Education ministry

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Over 1.1 million children across India have been identified as ‘Out of School’ for the 2024-25 academic year, said the union education ministry in a written response to a question raised in the Lok Sabha by Telugu Desam Party lawmaker Sribharat Mathukumilli. Union minister of state for education Jayant Chaudhary said that states like Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, and …

AP has 46,138 school dropouts; efforts on to enrol them back into schools
3 months, 2 weeks ago

AP has 46,138 school dropouts; efforts on to enrol them back into schools

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh has 46,138 school dropouts during the current academic year 2024–25. The department of school education took up a special drive and enrolled 1,49,106 children back into the schools, with 63,473 continuing as school dropouts. In another spell of special campaign for enrolment of school dropouts, the school education authorities enrolled 17,335 school dropouts. District-wise, the school dropouts …

Over one-third tribal boys in Odisha leave studies in secondary level
8 months ago

Over one-third tribal boys in Odisha leave studies in secondary level

The Hindu  

A significantly higher number of tribal and Dalit boys have dropped out of residential schools compared to their girl counterparts in the State’s residential schools, according to the Odisha Economic Survey Report 2023-24 that was presented in the State Assembly on Wednesday. “School dropout among ST and SC communities is higher than State dropout rate at upper primary and secondary …

Change in demographic profile major cause of declining student strength in schools
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Change in demographic profile major cause of declining student strength in schools

New Indian Express  

KOCHI: Though the directive from the Kerala State Commission for the Protection of Child Rights can be cited as the trigger for many educational institutions taking the co-education route, there is more to it than meets the eye. Till the end of the 2022 academic year, the state had 280 girls schools and 164 boys schools in the government and …

‘Delay in upgrading school in hill area contributes to child marriages and dropouts in Erode district’
8 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Delay in upgrading school in hill area contributes to child marriages and dropouts in Erode district’

The Hindu  

The delay in upgrading the Panchayat Union Middle School at Kottadai village in Hasanur panchayat in Talavadi Union as high school and lack of public transportation to reach the nearest school at Hasanur is contributing to the prevalence of child marriages and dropouts in the hill area. To study in class 9, students have to travel 20 km through a …

Dropout rate has reduced; enrolment of girls, SC, ST and OBC students in higher education up: Prez
1 year, 1 month ago

Dropout rate has reduced; enrolment of girls, SC, ST and OBC students in higher education up: Prez

Hindustan Times  

Addressing the joint sitting of Parliament at the beginning of the Budget session, she said enrolment of Scheduled Caste students has increased by about 44 per cent, that of Scheduled Tribe students by more than 65 per cent and that of OBC by more than 44 per cent. Enrolment of Scheduled Caste students has increased by about 44 pc, that …

National Girl Child Day: Educational schemes curb girls’ secondary dropout rates in UP
1 year, 2 months ago

National Girl Child Day: Educational schemes curb girls’ secondary dropout rates in UP

Hindustan Times  

As January 24 is celebrated annually as National Girl Child Day, it becomes imperative to examine the educational achievements of girls, given that women’s education is considered a crucial element for societal progress. Most notably, data released by the state government also showed that for the year 2021 to 2022, over 14% more girls opted for higher secondary education after …

Odisha's 5T Program Spurs Surge in Government School Enrolment
1 year, 3 months ago

Odisha's 5T Program Spurs Surge in Government School Enrolment

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: In 2021, when the Odisha government introduced its 5T promise to over 8,000 state-run schools, there was skepticism among teachers. But the shift of enrolment from private schools to government schools is evidence of its efficacy Lady Lewis Girls High School in Sambalpur witnessed a 50 per cent increase in enrolment in two years. Aswathy S, commissioner-secretary, school and …

Class 10 dropout rate stands at 20.6 percent in 2021-22, over 29 lakh students failed: Pradhan
1 year, 3 months ago

Class 10 dropout rate stands at 20.6 percent in 2021-22, over 29 lakh students failed: Pradhan

Hindustan Times  

The Class 10 dropout rate stands at 20.6 percent for the academic year 2021-22 with Odisha being the worst performing state in this regard followed by Bihar, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan informed the Lok Sabha on Monday. In the written response, the Union Education Minister informed the Lok Sabha that 1,89,90,809 students appeared for the Class 10 examination in …

78% parents in rural India want their daughters to study till graduation and more: Report
1 year, 7 months ago

78% parents in rural India want their daughters to study till graduation and more: Report

India TV News  

There has been a lot of improvement in the education level after the years of independence of the country. Talking on which the Education Minister said that now 78 percent parents of girls in rural areas want to give graduation and higher education to their children. Family income is also the reason for leaving school According to reports, out of …

Punjab gets ₹1,298 cr for school education, Centre flags dropout spike
1 year, 10 months ago

Punjab gets ₹1,298 cr for school education, Centre flags dropout spike

Hindustan Times  

The Union ministry of education has sanctioned a budget of ₹1,298.30 crore for school education in Punjab for the financial year 2023-24 under the Samagra Shiksha Scheme while flagging the increase in the school dropout rate and teacher vacancies at the secondary level in the state. The central ministry, while appraising the state’s annual work plan and budget proposal, flagged …

Seek reports on school dropouts, Calcutta HC to Bengal govt on Covid impact
1 year, 11 months ago

Seek reports on school dropouts, Calcutta HC to Bengal govt on Covid impact

Hindustan Times  

KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court has asked the West Bengal government to call for reports from districts on the strength of students in schools before and after the Covid pandemic and take steps to bring back students who dropped out of schools. West Bengal was among the dozen-odd states that had secondary school dropout rates higher than the national average …

Economic Survey 2023: School Enrolment Rate Increase, Steady Decline In Dropouts
2 years, 1 month ago

Economic Survey 2023: School Enrolment Rate Increase, Steady Decline In Dropouts

ABP News  

Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman, presented the Economic Survey 2023 in the parliament today, January 31, 2023. The Economic Survey 2022-23 highlights a marked improvement in Gross Enrolment Ratio and Gender Parity in schools. Besides improved GER in school enrolment, the Economic Survey 2022-23 has also picked out the welcoming decrease in school drop-out rates. The …

Economic Surve 2022-23 | Share of education in budgetary allocations has fallen over last 7 years
2 years, 1 month ago

Economic Surve 2022-23 | Share of education in budgetary allocations has fallen over last 7 years

The Hindu  

January 31, 2023 07:50 pm | Updated February 01, 2023 02:04 am IST The budgetary allocation for education as a percentage of total expenditure has dropped over the past seven years, from 10.4% to 9.5%, according to the Economic Survey 2022-23. As a share of total GDP, the budgetary allocation for education saw only a minimal gain of 0.1 percentage …

Low attendance, lack of toilets for girl students in Bihar government schools, says ASER report
2 years, 2 months ago

Low attendance, lack of toilets for girl students in Bihar government schools, says ASER report

The Hindu  

The latest Annual Status of Education Report has flagged low attendance and low education levels in Bihar’s government schools and noted that the State’s students take private tuitions at more than double the rate of the national average. The ASER-2022 report, released by the NGO Pratham on Wednesday, says that, “Students attendance in Bihar is below 60% in both primary …

ASER 2022 | Proportion of out-of-school girls falls to record 2% in 2022; Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chandigarh areas of concern
2 years, 2 months ago

ASER 2022 | Proportion of out-of-school girls falls to record 2% in 2022; Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chandigarh areas of concern

The Hindu  

The proportion of out-of-school girls in India declined to the lowest ever rate of 2% in 2022, according to the Annual Status of Education Report 2022 released on January 18. The report also noted that despite the overall decline, three States — Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh — were a cause of concern with over 10% girls out of …

Enrolment in Karnataka schools improves, but learning level drops: ASER 2022
2 years, 2 months ago

Enrolment in Karnataka schools improves, but learning level drops: ASER 2022

The Hindu  

At a time when the enrolment in schools has improved, the reading level of students has further dropped in the State, according to the Annual Status of Education Reports 2022. Drop in reading level The report states that the percentage of children in class 3 in government and private schools, who can read class 2 level, dropped from 19.3% in …

ASER: Proportion of out-of-school girls falls to record 2% in 2022
2 years, 2 months ago

ASER: Proportion of out-of-school girls falls to record 2% in 2022

Hindustan Times  

The proportion of out-of-school girls in India declined to the lowest ever rate of 2 per cent in 2022, according to the Annual Status of Education Report 2022 released on Wednesday. ASER: Proportion of out-of-school girls falls to record 2% in 2022; MP, UP, C'garh areas of concern The report also noted that despite the overall decline, three states -- …

Assam: Nearly 4,500 schools shut down in state after Covid-19 pandemic
2 years, 4 months ago

Assam: Nearly 4,500 schools shut down in state after Covid-19 pandemic

Hindustan Times  

The Covid-19 pandemic has severely impact schools in Assam and other states in northeast India, according to a report released by the Union education ministry titled ‘Unified District Information System for Education Plus’. Though Covid-19 had impacted the education sector in 2020-21 as well, the effect was more on the enrolment of students, especially in lower classes and among students …

Percentage of Top Performing Govt Schools Dips in Assam: Report
2 years, 6 months ago

Percentage of Top Performing Govt Schools Dips in Assam: Report

News 18  

The percentage of schools placed in A+ grade during an evaluation exercise of government elementary and secondary level institutions in Assam has decreased this year compared to 2018 and 2017, an official report said on Monday. Altogether 11.52 per cent of over 45,000 schools evaluated in 2022 have made it to the top bracket in the evaluation process, Gunotsav’, a …

Odisha to upgrade 100 high schools to contain dropout rate
2 years, 7 months ago

Odisha to upgrade 100 high schools to contain dropout rate

Hindustan Times  

Odisha government plans to upgrade 100 high schools to higher secondary schools from the next academic session to contain dropout rate, a measure of social development. School and mass education minister Samir Ranjan Dash said the steps to upgrade schools would be carried out in the blocks where higher secondary schools exist. Upgrading schools to higher secondary by including Plus …

UP 10th, 12th Board Exams 2022: 7.8 Lakh students skip exams in four days
2 years, 8 months ago

UP 10th, 12th Board Exams 2022: 7.8 Lakh students skip exams in four days

India Today  

UP Classes 10,12 Board Exams 2022: The Uttar Pradesh madhyamik shiksha parishad, UPMSP, has started the UP Board exams 2022 from March 24, 2022. UP CLASSES 10,12 BOARD EXAMS 2022: PRECENTAGE OF DROPOUT According to the official board exam time table, Classes 10 and 12 students had Computer and Geography exams on Monday. UP CLASSES 10,12 BOARD EXAMS 2022: OTHER …

How Covid-19 has forced the dropout rate to shoot up in India and what we can do
3 years, 4 months ago

How Covid-19 has forced the dropout rate to shoot up in India and what we can do

India Today  

Sabin, a primary school student from Delhi slums, had to drop out of school because her parents could no longer educate three children on their pandemic-affected meager income. Unemployment has been rising since the Covid-19 pandemic started in early 2020, which has pushed parents to prioritize survival over children’s education, especially fees in private schools. How to prevent further dropouts …

ASER 2021 shows 10% more children opting for private tuitions than pre-pandemic times
3 years, 4 months ago

ASER 2021 shows 10% more children opting for private tuitions than pre-pandemic times

India Today  

The ASER 2021 report launched on Wednesday shows that there has been a 10 percent increase in the number of students opting for paid private tuitions as compared to the pre-pandemic times. Highlights from ASER 2021 on private tuitions In 2018, less than 30% students took private tuitions while in 2021, almost 40% students opt for private tuitions The proportional …

School enrolment up by 4.2 mn in FY20
3 years, 8 months ago

School enrolment up by 4.2 mn in FY20

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Indian schools taught 265 million students in 2019-20, at least 4.2 million more than the year-ago period, while the number of teachers rose by 250,000 during the period, the union education ministry on Thursday said in its Unified District Information System for Education report 2019-20. Including pre-primary students enrolled in formal schools, the “total enrolment of all the …

Average dropout rate of girls recorded at 17.3% at secondary level in 2018-19: WCD Ministry
4 years, 1 month ago

Average dropout rate of girls recorded at 17.3% at secondary level in 2018-19: WCD Ministry

The Hindu  

The average dropout rate of girls was 17.3% at the secondary education level and 4.74% at the elementary level in 2018-19, the Women and Child Development Ministry said on Friday. According to the data, the annual average dropout rate of girls was 17.3% at the secondary education level and 4.74% at the elementary level in 2018-19. The average dropout rate …

10 million girls at risk of dropping out of school because of the COVID-19 pandemic: RTE Forum
4 years, 2 months ago

10 million girls at risk of dropping out of school because of the COVID-19 pandemic: RTE Forum

The Hindu  

Ten million girls in India could drop out of secondary school due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Right to Education Forum policy brief. With 1.6 million girls aged 11 to 14 years currently out of school, the pandemic could disproportionately impact girls further by putting them at risk of early marriage, early pregnancy, poverty, trafficking and violence. For …

Delhi's Unemployment Rate 16.25 Pc, Nearly 10 Pc Children Out of School: Govt Survey
4 years, 2 months ago

Delhi's Unemployment Rate 16.25 Pc, Nearly 10 Pc Children Out of School: Govt Survey

News 18  

The national capital has an unemployment rate of over 16 per cent and nearly 10 per cent children in the age group of 6-17 do not attend school primarily due to financial constraints, according to a Delhi government survey. "Among the children in the age group of 6-17, 9.76 per cent are reported to be out of school including dropout, …

Lost school time might lower lifetime earnings for lockdown-hit children
4 years, 4 months ago

Lost school time might lower lifetime earnings for lockdown-hit children

Live Mint  

The tragic suicides of college students because of their inability to take part in online classes have grabbed headlines across the country. Eight months have passed since most Indian children last went to school, and their loss isn’t just restricted to learning outcomes. A World Bank research paper published earlier this year suggests that with schools shut, South Asian children …

West Bengal Ranks First in Decline of School Dropout Rate: Survey
4 years, 4 months ago

West Bengal Ranks First in Decline of School Dropout Rate: Survey

News 18  

Kolkata: West Bengal occupies the top position in the decline of dropout rate among school students during 2018-2020, the ruling Trinamool Congress said in a statement quoting a national survey. According to the Annual State of Education Report 2020, the school dropout rate in the state declined from 3.3 per cent to 1.5 per cent while it went up from …

Survey on girl dropouts in Odisha schools rejected by Education Minister
6 years, 7 months ago

Survey on girl dropouts in Odisha schools rejected by Education Minister

India Today  

Badri Narayan Patra, School and Mass Education Minister of Odisha has recently rejected the results of the survey conducted by Women and Child Welfare and Mission Shakti department. In their survey, WCD-MS dept has claimed that 55,868 girls in the age group of 11-14 years were out of school in Odisha. While in Bhadrak district there are no out-of-school girls …

Schools across India facing acute shortage of teachers, says ASSOCHAM report
7 years, 5 months ago

Schools across India facing acute shortage of teachers, says ASSOCHAM report

India Today  

Indian schools suffer from an acute of teachers, a report released by ASSOCHAM has revealed. At present, there are about 50 per cent vacancies in schools across the country, with 30,000 vacancies for teachers in Haryana alone where more than 800 schools are being run without principals. According to the report, the student dropout ratio and expensive higher education are …

Bihar fertility rate reduced by boosting education among girls, says Nitish Kumar
7 years, 6 months ago

Bihar fertility rate reduced by boosting education among girls, says Nitish Kumar

Firstpost  

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday said that education of girls has a direct bearing on fertility rate in Bihar Patna: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday said that education of girls has a direct bearing on fertility rate in Bihar, where it has gone down to 3.2 from 3.9 earlier. Kumar, who was speaking at Teachers Day …

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