26.5% rise in student enrolments in schools, higher education institutions under Modi govt: Education Min Dharmendra Pradhan
higher education institutions after the Narendra Modi government assumed office in 2014, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. Replying to supplementary queries of MPs during the question hour, he said there has been a 31 per cent growth in enrolment among girls between 2014-15 and 2021-22 and the figure for girls belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC) stood at 50 per cent.
The enrolment growth rate for SC and Scheduled Tribe (ST) students was 44 per cent and 65 per cent, respectively.
There has been an increase of 80 per cent in enrolment among tribal girl students after the Modi government came to power, he said.
Pradhan said that after the implementation of the National Education Policy, there has been reverse migration of students. India has 30 crore students — 26 crore in classes 1 to 12 and four crore in higher education.
«In the last some years after the Modi government came to power and after implementation of the National Education Policy, there has been a 25-26 per cent jump in student enrolments in schools as well as in higher education.
»In comparison to 2014-15 with 2021-22, there has been a 26.5 per cent increase in students, which confirms that students have shown interest in gaining education," the minister said.
Among Muslim girls, there has been an increase of 45 per cent in enrolment, he said.
