Question : Female Dropout Rate

(a) whether the Government is aware that the dropout rates have been increased at primary and
secondary level and if so, the details of dropout rates of boys and girls in rural and urban areas,
State/UT and Year-wise;
(b) whether the Government has conducted any survey to measure dropout rate in school after
2014;
(c) if so, the details thereof, State-wise along with the details of the States where dropout rate is
high and the States where dropout rate is low along with the percentage of dropout of girls,
State/UT-wise;
(d) whether it is a fact that the dropout rate of girls in primary schools has been reduced after the
introduction of the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act,2009 and if so, the details
thereof;
(e) whether there is a rise in the admissions of girls in primary schools and if so, the details
thereof; and
(f) the steps taken/ being taken by the Government to minimise the dropout rate in schools,
particularly girls dropout rate?

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

(Dr. SATYA PAL SINGH)

(a) As per Unified District Information System for Education (U-DISE) maintained by National
Institute of Education Planning and Administration (NIEPA), details of drop-out rates of boys and
girls in rural and urban areas, State/UT–wise at primary and secondary levels during 2016-17 and
2015-16 are given in Annexure-I.
(b) and (c) Government conducts annual census of schools (known as U-DISE) to collect
information to measure different parameters of school education including dropout rate in school.
The required information has been furnished at Annexure-I
(d) and (e) The relevant information are annexed at Annexure-II and III respectively.
(f) The Department of School Education and Literacy has launched the Samagra Shiksha-an
Integrated Scheme for School Education as a Centrally sponsored Scheme 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 schools education. It envisages the ‘school’ as a continuum from pre-school, primary, upper
primary, secondary to senior secondary levels.
The major focus of the scheme is to ensure retention of children till completion of schooling by
providing support for different interventions like survey and identification of out of school children,
Special Training for out-of-school children at elementary level, provision of free textbooks & free
uniforms as per right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, upgradation of
Kastruba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) from Classes 6 to 8 upto Class 12, enhancing access to
various levels of education by providing new/upgraded upper primary, secondary and senior
secondary schools, strengthening of infrastructure of existing schools, provision of residential schools
and hostels in sparsely populated areas of tribal, desert or hilly districts, where it may not be viable to
set up a full-fledged school, introduction of vocational education at secondary level, Self-defence
training for Girls from classes VI to XII, separate toilet for girls students, gender sensitization
programmes, stipend for girls with special needs from Classes I to XII, enrolment and retention drives
etc. to issues relating to transition/retention of students in schools.
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