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The Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) successful the secondary level enrollment (middle school) successful Karnataka has crossed 100% and is presently astatine 101.3%. The State’s GER has accrued by 22.46 percent points successful the past decade, according to the NITI Aayog’s caller report, ‘School Education System In India: Temporal Analysis and Policy Roadmap for Quality Enhancement.’
The GER exceeded 100% successful Chandigarh 110.1%, Goa 107.5%, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu 104.9%, Himachal Pradesh 102.6%, Karnataka 101.3%, and Delhi 101.1%.
States nearing cosmopolitan levels see Telangana 99.9%, West Bengal 99.4%, and Kerala 98.7%.
At the little extremity were Bihar 51.1%, Nagaland 61.8%, Uttar Pradesh 64.3%, Jammu & Kashmir 66.1%, Madhya Pradesh 68.2, and Arunachal Pradesh 69.3% successful 2024-25, with the GER levels slipping further beneath the nationalist average.
The study highlighted that the past decennary witnessed important comparative GER improvements successful West Bengal from 75.26% to 99.4%, Telangana 76.7% to 99.9% and Karnataka from 78.84% to 101.3%.
“The decadal question highlights that secondary acquisition remains the astir fragile nexus successful the schooling cycle, wherever economical constraints, societal factors, and anemic organization enactment converge to bounds participation,” stated the report.
At a glance: Niti Aayog study 2026
GER successful secondary level successful Karnataka is 101.3%
State’s GER has accrued by 22.46% successful secondary level successful the past decade
GER of higher secondary level successful Karnataka is 61.4%
Karnataka’s GER for girls has accrued from 90.58% to 103.9% successful the past decade
School dropout rates successful secondary level successful Karnataka is 18.3%
Only 55% of schools person machine installation successful Karnataka.
Higher secondary
The State-level information shows that higher secondary GER is highest successful Chandigarh 107.4%, followed by Puducherry 95.5%, Goa 93.8%, Kerala 89.5%, Andaman & Nicobar Islands 85.8%, Himachal Pradesh 84.7%, Tamil Nadu 83.4%, Delhi 82.7%, and Uttarakhand 80.9%. In contrast, the lowest levels are observed successful Bihar 38.1%, Meghalaya 39.7%, Nagaland 39.8%, Assam 43.5%, Arunachal Pradesh 43.7%, Jammu & Kashmir 44.8%, Madhya Pradesh 45.0%, Gujarat 47.3%, Jharkhand 48.6%, and Sikkim 49.6%.
The largest comparative betterment successful enrollment during the past decennary was observed successful Karnataka from 29.68% to 61.4%. In Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu 38.21% to 68.4%, Bihar 22.38% to 38.1%, and Assam 28.55% to 43.5%. The steepest comparative declines were successful Lakshadweep from 75.75% to 51.1%, Arunachal Pradesh 54.67% to 43.7%.
GER for girls
Several States and Union Territories person registered notable improvements successful the GER for girls astatine the upper-primary stage. Gains are astir disposable successful Chandigarh from 111.65% to 131.2% and Meghalaya 105.13% to 126.8%.
In confederate States, Karnataka’s improvements successful the GER for girls is 90.58% to 103.9% and successful Andhra Pradesh 81.47% to 102%.
Learning outcomes decline
The study besides points retired to the wide diminution successful learning outcomes crossed the country. A clump of States/UTs, including Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Delhi, Rajasthan, Haryana, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, and Daman & Diu, experienced peculiarly crisp reductions crossed subjects.
In contrast, a larger radical of States specified arsenic Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, Mizoram, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal recorded mean decline.
Dropouts
The dropout rates successful secondary level is highest successful West Bengal (20.0%), followed by Arunachal Pradesh (18.3%), Karnataka (18.3%), and Assam (17.5%).
The modulation from secondary to higher secondary has reached 100% successful Delhi and Chandigarh. High modulation levels are besides observed successful Andaman & Nicobar Islands (92.5%), Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu (91.4%), and Lakshadweep (91.3%). However, modulation rates stay lowest successful Meghalaya (47.8%), followed by West Bengal (57.4%), Mizoram (58.5%), and Karnataka (62.5%).
Availability of computers
Despite being a superior of Information Technology (IT), the NITI Aayog study revealed that lone 55% of schools person machine installation successful Karnataka.
However, the availability of computers successful schools has reached afloat sum successful Lakshadweep (100%), and is virtually cosmopolitan successful Delhi (99.9%), Puducherry (99.5%), Chandigarh (99.5%), Kerala (99.5%), and Punjab (99%).
Over the past decade, the sharpest gains were recorded successful Assam from 9.8% to 78.7%, Jharkhand 9.7% to 76%, Odisha 13.7% to 76.7%.
In contrast, the smallest improvements were observed successful Karnataka from 38.7% to 55.7% and successful Goa from 43.5% to 57.1%.
