‘Two-third of Class V students can’t identify nos' The Annual Status of Education Report(ASER) painted a grim picture of the affairs in the state's education sector.
The report says that 52.6% class V studentsfailed in simple division while 75.5% can't do simple
subtraction. Moreover, two thirds of class V students
cannot recognize numbers from 1 to 9. The situation is
similar in other classes and reading levels are also no
different. In class III, 13.4% children cannot even read
letters, 21.6% of the students in class VIII cannot read
the texts of class II, the report says. Similarly, only
49.2% students can read class II level texts. Another
striking feature is that only 24.5% students in classes
from I-VIII can recognize numbers.
The report says the number of dropouts among girls in
age group of 11-14 has increased. From 11.2% in 2012,
the girl dropouts increased to 12.1% in 2013.
The only saving grace is enrolment of students in 6-14
age group which is more than 94% since the last five
years. However, the cause of concern is that the
students continue to lag behind in arithmetic. Besides,
a only a small section of class III children are able to
solve a two-digit subtraction but those unable to do
simple math problems has increased from 18.7% in
2012 to 23.1% in 2013.
Despite the government pumping in crores of rupees in
the education sector and the number of private schools
complying with the RTE parameters for enrolment have
jumped from 25.2% in 2006 to 39.5% in 2013, the
dismal picture of the sector still prevails. ASERwas
conducted in 32 districts and in around 947 villages
covering 19,000 households and 37,000 children in the
age group of 3-16.
"In the past year, the government conducted Shiksha
Samblan followed by Reading Campaign. Perhaps it is
the result of this focus on learning outcomes that
significant improvements in reading in class III and
some increase in class V are being achieved," said K B
Kothari, managing trustee of Pratham, reacting to the
report.
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