Ministry of education report on unified district information system for education plus (UDISE+) 2020-21.

Why in news?

• UDISE, integrating DISE for elementary and secondary education, was one of the largest Management Information Systems on School Education.
• It was initiated in 2012-13.
• UDISE+ is an updated version (developed in 2018-19) of UDISE to overcome problems associated with the previous practice of manually filing data in paper format and feeding it onto computers.
• Under UDISE+ entire system is online with real-time data collection.
• Key Findings
• Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) which measure general level of participation has improved in 2020-21 (25.38 Gore) at all levels of school education compared to 2019-20 (25.10 Crore).
• Pupil Teacher Ratio (PTR) stood at 26 for primary, 19 for upper primary, 18 for secondary and 26 for higher secondary, showing an improvement since 2018-19.
• Over 12.2 crore girls are enrolled in primary to higher secondary showing an increase of 11.8 lakh girls compared to 2019-20.
• Impact of COVID-19 pandemic: 39.7 lakh students of government aided, private school students shifted to Government schools during 2020-21.
• School infrastructure: Percentage of schools with functional girl’s toilet facility, drinking water, hand wash facilities, internet facility etc has increased in 2020-21 as compared to 2019-2020.