Enrolment shifts from private to govt schools in rural India: ASER 2021

Enrolments for 6-14 age group rise to 70% in govt schools, fall to 24% in private ones

In what could be a sign of pandemic-induced distress, there’s been a major shift with students opting out of private schools to enrol in government ones across the country, especially in the 6-14 age group, according to the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2021.

At an all-India level, enrolment in private schools for children in the age group of 6-14 has decreased from 32.5 per cent in 2018 to 24.4 per cent in 2021, while that for government schools has increased from 64.3 per cent in 2018 to 70.3 per cent in 2021.

In 2020, the drop in private school enrolment