Telangana’s secondary schools with science labs higher than national average, but lags behind several States

Telangana has higher than the nationalist mean of secondary schools with integrated subject laboratories, according to information from Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) for 2024-25. Out of 13,103 schools in Telangana nether each managements that person secondary sections, 8,808 person integrated subject labs, translating to 67.2%. Just 2 years earlier successful 2022-23 this fig was 43.6%.

The State’s wide show is higher than the nationalist mean of 57.1%, indicating comparatively amended infrastructure coverage. Uttar Pradesh has lone 50.1% secondary schools with integrated subject labs. Bihar has the lowest fig of secondary schools with integrated subject labs astatine 26%.

57% secondary schools with subject labs successful India

At the nationalist level, India has 2.9 lakh schools with secondary sections, of which lone 1.66 lakh person integrated subject laboratory facilities successful 2024-25. This is simply a marginal betterment from 1.56 lakhs schools having integrated subject labs retired of a full of 2.79 lakh secondary schools successful 2022-23 (from 55.8% to 57.1%).

“Without hands-on acquisition with objects to trial technological principles, the students person lone theoretical knowledge. The effect volition beryllium what has happened astatine the AI Summit successful Delhi. Labs are compulsory successful science, dissimilar successful societal sciences. There is simply a immense demand for subject labs successful schools and colleges, but galore schools successful the state deficiency this basal facility,” said K. Laxminarayana, a University of Hyderabad professor, erstwhile asked astir subject teaching and frontiers of exertion similar artificial quality and robotics.

“Schools person been hollowed retired of subject teachers and different taxable teachers owed to debased oregon zero recruitment of faculty,” said Mr. Laxminarayana who made a lawsuit for expanding acquisition fund successful Telangana.

However, Telangana inactive trails respective States specified arsenic Tamil Nadu (80.1%), Odisha (80%), and Punjab (75.5%), wherever a larger proportionality of secondary schools person integrated subject laboratories.

Telangana Govt and pvt schools with labs

The availability varies crossed absorption categories successful Telangana. Government schools relationship for 6,599 secondary schools successful the State, of which 4,211 (63.8%) person the labs. In the backstage unaided segment, 4,493 retired of 6,275 schools (71.6%) person the facilities, portion aided schools lag significantly, with lone 103 of 226 schools (45.6%) equipped with the labs. This is simply a melodramatic betterment from 2022-23 UDISE information which showed lone 43.6% secondary schools successful Telangana having integrated subject labs. The authorities schools with integrated subject labs has much than doubled from 31.5% to 63.8%. In backstage unaided schools, this has gone up from 57.2% to 71.6%.