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20%
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27%
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33%
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40%
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Detailed explanation-1: -Almost half of government schools in the country don’t have any electricity or playgrounds, according to a parliamentary panel on education. It identified shortfalls in both budgetary funding and utilisation, resulting in critical infrastructure gaps.
Detailed explanation-2: -The literacy rate is 77.70%, with literate males at 84.70% and literate females at 70.30%, according to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) and National Statistical Office: NSO (2021 and 2022).
Detailed explanation-3: -Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan(SSA): The main objective is to spread basic quality elementary education all over the country with coordination between the central, state and local government.
Detailed explanation-4: -RTE or Right To Education Act of 2009 states that every child aged 6-14 years has the right to free and compulsory education. Balika Samridhi Yojana (August 15 1997) provides 500 Rupees to mothers with a girl child. It also provides annual scholarships to promote girl’s education.
Detailed explanation-5: -The school system in India has four levels: lower primary (age 6 to 10), upper primary (11 and 12), high (13 to 15) and higher secondary (17 and 18). The lower primary school is divided into five “standards”, upper primary school into two, high school into three and higher secondary into two.