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NATION
National Education Policy

Government schools outpaced STEP BY STEP, RESULTS HAVE GOT BETTER
private schools in basic skill
Continued Growth in
development
Pre-Primary Enrollment
•n Enrollment of children aged 6 to 14 has reached a
AGE 3 AGE 4 AGE 5
high of 98.1 per cent in 2024 in the last 20 years.
•n The number of under-age children in Class-1 in %Children Enrolled %Children not Enrolled
2024 is at the lowest level of 16.7 percent in line 90% 30% 28.8
with the policy of the National Education Policy.
83.4
80% 77.4 20.7
20%
76 71.4 15.6
70% 11.4
68.1
10% 8.1
60% 6.2
58.5
50% 0%
2018 2022 2024 2018 2022 2024

Source: Annual Status of education Report(Rural) 2024
The Nipun Bharat Mission has also played an
Over
important role in accelerating this change in the of children aged 3-5
education sector. The measures taken under it are now enrolled at the
have yielded excellent results. Learn what goals 70% preschool level, showing
started the journey of change... significant improvement

Clear goals: Focus on acquiring
specific basic skills. •n It ensures that
early childhood
education in some
Innovative Pedagogy: Encourage
format is accessible
information and experimental
to everyone, an
learning with the help of toys to
important trend.
stimulate interest in learning.
•n Enrollment rates
have stabilized
Rural Effectiveness: Bridging the
since the pandemic,
deficiencies of traditional means
and the number
of education.
of children aged 3
Teacher training: Provide intensive to 5 not attending
training programs to equip school between 2018
teachers with context-specific, and 2024 has also
effective teaching strategies decreased.

by combining skills with education. The success Improvement in basic skills
of the national education policy can be assessed The Annual State of Education Report 2024
on the basis of better enrollment and a skilled covers the pre- and post-COVID situation in great
workforce with knowledge competence. This is detail. Accordingly, our primary and secondary
also evident in the Annual Status of Education class students have proven far better in terms of
Report (ASER) survey results. Nationwide basic skills after recovering from this COVID era
household surveys have revealed the enrollment than before this period.
and learning outcomes of children in rural India. These results in the field of education have

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