Rise in govt school enrolment during Covid reversed, full recovery from learning loss: Report

Facilitated by an NGO, “Pratham”, in each surveyed district, a local organisation or institution conducted the survey.”At the all-India level, the proportion of children in Class 3, who are able to read at Class 2 level, rose slowly from 23.6 per cent in 2014 to 27.3 per cent in 2018 and then fell drastically to 20.5 per cent in 2022. Two years later, we have a full recovery with the proportion of Class-3 children reading fluently at 27.1 per cent.””We see a similar picture in Class 4, with the proportion of Class-5 children who can read a Class-2 level text rising from 48 per cent in 2014 to 50.5 per cent in 2018, then falling to 42.8 per cent in 2022 and finally recovering to 48.8 per cent in 2024,” the report said.Some states have done very well and surpassed their pre-pandemic learning levels, while others are yet to recover fully.Nevertheless, almost all states have shown improvements as compared to 2022.”In fact, the low-performing states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu have made a remarkable recovery,” the report noted. For the first time, the nationwide household survey had a section on digital literacy, which applied to older children in the 14 to 16 age group.



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