Loksabhaquestions Annex 1714 AU2475

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION AND LITERACY
LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO- 2475
ANSWERED ON- 18/12/2023
Student Teacher Ratio in Schools
†2475. SHRI DINESH LAL YADAV “NIRAHUA”:
Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

(a) whether there is disparity in school education among different States of the country;
(b) if so, the details thereof and also the reasons therefor;
(c) whether the Government has defined any standard for student-teacher ratio in the country;
(d) if so, the details thereof along with the details of student-teacher ratio in the country, State-
wise; and
(e) the schemes being implemented by the Government to remove the persisting disparity in
different States of the country?
ANSWER
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

(SMT. ANNPURNA DEVI)
(a) & (b): Education is in the Concurrent list of Constitution and most of the schools come
under jurisdiction of concerned States and UTs. State and UT Governments are the appropriate
Governments under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act,
2009. Therefore, regulation, maintenance and supervision of school come under the purview
of the respective State and Union Territory (UT) Government in accordance with the norms
laid down in the Schedule to the RTE Act, 2009 and as per respective State RTE Rules.
The Performance Grading Index (PGI) developed by Department of School Education &
Literacy (DoSEL) aims to assess the relative performance of all the State/UTs in a uniform
scale to encourage State/UTs to perform better. The PGI-State has been conceptualized as a
tool to catalyse transformational change in the field of school education and introduced from
2018-19. The PGI– State motivate States and UTs to adopt best practices followed by the top
performing State and it has 6 domains with seventy (73) indicators carrying a score of 1000.
The six domains on which states are assessed (i) Learning Outcomes (ii) Access (iii)
Infrastructure & Facilities (iv) Equity (v) Governance Process and (vi) Teachers Education and
Training. Scores obtained by States/ UT's are then classified into ten grades: Daksh, Utkarsh,
Atti-Uttam, Uttam, Prachesta -1, Prachesta -2, Prachesta -3, Akanshi-1, Akanshi-2, Akanshi-
3. The score wise details is available at:
https://www.education.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/statistics-new/pgi-s.pdf
(c) & (d): As per Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, the
Pupil-Teacher Ratio (PTR) norms for primary and upper primary level are 30:1 and 35:1
respectively. The PTR at national level for Government primary schools is 28:1, for upper
primary schools is 24:1, for elementary school is 26:1, for secondary school is 19:1 and for
Higher Secondary School is 27:1 as per UDISE 2021-22. The state-wise detail of Pupil-Teacher
ratio is placed at Annexure.
(e): The Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Samagra Shiksha has been aligned with the
recommendation of National Education Policy (NEP), 2020. In pursuance of the goals and
objectives of the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020), several initiatives have been
launched in School Education under Samagra Shiksha viz. National Initiative for Proficiency
in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN Bharat) for ensuring foundational
literacy and numeracy by the end of Grade 3; Vidya-Pravesh–Guidelines for Three-month
Play-based School Preparation Module; Indian Sign Language as a Subject at secondary level
by National Institute of Open Schooling; National Initiative for School Heads’ and Teachers’
Holistic Advancement (NISHTHA) extended to cover teachers at all levels of schooling
including training of master trainers for ECCE; Vidya Sameeksha Kendra (VSK) launched on
06.09.2020. So far, 11 States namely - Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi, Goa,
Gujarat, Maharashtra, Nagaland, Punjab, Odisha, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh - have set up
Vidya Samiksha Kendra; ICT and Digital initiatives component of centrally sponsored scheme
of Samagra Shiksha covers Government and Aided schools having classes VI to XII. Under
this component financial assistance is provided for establishing ICT Lab and Smart Classrooms
in schools; National Digital Educational Architecture (NDEAR) has 1500+ Micro courses, 5
billion+ Learning sessions, 12 billion+ QR codes, 20K+ ecosystem participants, 15K+ Micro
improvements ongoing across the various linked building blocks.
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Annexure
ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (c) & (d) OF LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2475 TO BE ANSWERED ON 18.12.2023 ASKED BY
HONB’LE MP SHRI DINESH LAL YADAV “NIRAHUA” REGARDING ‘STUDENT
TEACHER RATIO IN SCHOOLS’.
State-wise Student Teacher Ratio – 2021-22
Pupil Teacher Ratio - Government (2021-22)
State/UTS Upper Higher
Primary Elementary Secondary
Primary Secondary
Andaman & Nicobar Islands 10 11 10 7 14
Andhra Pradesh 24 17 21 11 26
Arunachal Pradesh 11 10 11 12 22
Assam 23 18 21 12 23
Bihar 60 31 46 73 75
Chandigarh 36 19 26 14 39
Chhattisgarh 23 23 23 17 18
Dadra & Nagar Haveli &
Daman & Diu 33 34 33 22 31
Delhi 40 39 40 30 24
Goa 15 12 14 7 19
Gujarat 30 26 29 32 27
Haryana 32 25 29 13 15
Himachal Pradesh 15 11 13 6 11
Jammu & Kashmir 13 9 11 14 34
Jharkhand 33 38 34 46 76
Karnataka 20 16 18 19 41
Kerala 26 29 27 17 23
Ladakh 5 3 4 5 13
Lakshadweep 17 16 17 9 13
Madhya Pradesh 25 34 27 31 40
Maharashtra 22 25 23 24 31
Manipur 10 12 10 7 12
Meghalaya 20 13 17 11 21
Mizoram 14 7 11 9 15
Nagaland 7 5 6 8 14
Odisha 19 19 19 23 42
Puducherry 19 15 17 9 21
Punjab 25 24 24 11 24
Rajasthan 26 16 21 14 22
Sikkim 5 9 6 9 12
Tamilnadu 25 18 22 14 25
Telangana 25 16 20 10 31
Tripura 19 22 20 15 16
Uttar Pradesh 29 33 30 23 36
Uttarakhand 18 18 18 10 15
West Bengal 29 35 31 19 30
INDIA 28 24 26 19 27
Source: UDISE+ 2021-22

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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

Student Teacher Ratio in Schools

†2475. SHRI DINESH LAL YADAV “NIRAHUA”:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (c) & (d) OF LOK SABHA

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