Context: Union Education Minister released the Report on United Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) 2019-20 for School Education in India.

• The present publication relates to UDISE+ data for the reference year 2019-20.

Key highlights of the Report

• Gross Enrolment Ratio at all levels of school education has improved in 2019-20 compared to 2018-19.
• The enrolment of girls from primary to higher secondary is more than 12.08 crore
• Pupil Teacher Ratio (PTR) has improved at all levels of school education.
• The Gender Parity Index (GPI) at both Secondary and Higher Secondary levels have improved between 2012-13 and 2019-20.
• A remarkable improvement in the number of schools with functional electricity, with functional computers, internet facility in 2019-20 over the previous year.
• More than 90% schools in India had hand wash facility as compared to only 36.3% in 2012-13 in the year 2019-20.
• Only three States — Kerala (88%), Delhi (86%) and Gujarat (71%) — have Internet facilities in more than half their schools.

About UDISE

• Unified District Information on School Education(UDISE) is one of the largest Management Information Systems on school education.
• UDISE was initiated in 2012-13 by the Ministry of Education by integrating DISE for elementary education and SEMIS for secondary education.
• Purpose: It helps measure the education parameters from classes 1 to 12 in government and private schools across India.
• UDISE+ is an updated and improved version of UDISE. It was developed in the year 2018-19 to speed up data entry, reduce errors, improve data quality and ease its verification.
• The present publication relates to the data for the reference year 2019-20.

By: Shubham Tiwari