AHMEDABAD: Gujarat may be a model state on other counts, but when it comes to good quality education, it is far behind even states like Haryana, Sikkim, Manipur, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh.This fact is revealed by the sustainable development report-2024, authored by Niti Aayog. The report recently put in the public domain states, on SDG index rating Kerala tops with 82, followed by Haryana and Himachal Pradesh 77 each, whereas Gujarat has scored just 58, It is below West Bengal, even states like Jharkhand and Rajasthan.The state government has run a school enrolment programme for more than a decade named ‘Shala Praveshotsav’, where the senior IAS, IPS and even IFS officers visit villages to see that enrollment increases yearly, and no child is left out. Even after putting all these efforts and energy behind it, the net enrolment rate in class I – VIII is 89%, compared to this Arunchal Pradesh and Assam has 100 per cent results, Andhra Pradesh has 96.9% result.On the other hand enrollment is not 100%, and the dropout ratio in secondary is still high, the state may claim that compared to 1980’s and 1990’s dropout ratio, it is successful in bringing down the dropout ratio, report states still Gujarat has 17.9%, which is higher than Kerala, which has just 5.5%, even state like Haryana has 5.9% dropout ratio.
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