Story in Numbers: Students move from private to government schools

Pratham, a non-government organisation focuses on research in school education trends and produces annual reports, but because of the Covid-19 pandemic, for the first time it conducted its Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) 2020 Wave 1, via phone interviews. The research is ongoing, but its first instalment (wave) sought to capture the changes in school education trends.
 
With most schools closed for the larger part of 2020, inevitably, there has been an impact on children’s education. Beyond the health consequences of Covid-19, the pandemic has caused school closures as well as economic hardships owing to migration and loss