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The fig of authorities schools crossed the state has declined implicit the past six years, information tabled by the Union Government successful Parliament connected Monday (December 1, 2025) showed.
The information presented by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan from the Unified District Information System for Education Plus further showed a dependable emergence successful the fig of authorities schools with less than 10 oregon zero pupil enrolments implicit the past 3 years.
The information was compiled successful effect to a starred question successful Lok Sabha by Congress MPs Karti Chidambaram and Amrinder Singh Raja Warring. It showed that successful 2022-23, determination were 52,300 authorities schools with less than 10 oregon zero pupil enrolments, a fig that roseate to much than 65,000 successful 2024-25.
States similar West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana accounted for the highest fig of these schools.Interestingly, the information presented revealed that the fig of teachers employed astatine these schools roseate from 1.26 lakh successful 2022-23 to 1.44 lakh successful 2024-25.
Mr. Pradhan, successful his response, noted that portion acquisition is connected the concurrent database of the Constitution, “the recruitment, remuneration, and rational deployment of teachers autumn nether the purview of the respective State Governments and Union Territory (U.T.) Administrations.”
In effect to questions connected authorities schools that had been closed, merged, oregon repurposed owed to debased oregon zero enrollment, the authorities submitted UDISE+ information showing an wide diminution successful the fig of schools crossed each States and U.T.s.
The dataset revealed that the state had 10.32 lakh authorities schools successful 2019-20, which fell to 10.13 lakh successful 2024-25, without specifying however overmuch of this simplification was owed to closures, mergers, oregon repurposing.
When asked astir the presumption and yearly reports of authorities schools, Mr. Pradhan said nether the regulations issued by the Department of Expenditure successful 2016, State and U.T. governments taxable yearly and audit reports to their respective Assemblies archetypal earlier sending them to the Centre for presumption successful Parliament. Union Territories without legislatures nonstop the reports straight to the Centre. The authorities did not clarify erstwhile the past specified study was submitted.
