One in every two students drop out of school in India

Even as India observes International Literacy Day Saturday, a study has found that one out of every two students enrolled in schools drop out before reaching ninth standard.
According to the revealing study carried out by the human resource development (HRD) ministry, one out of every four students does not go beyond class five. By class eight the dropout rate gets worse at 50.8 percent.………...It further underlined that as many as 60 percent of SC and 67 percent ST girls leave school without completing upper primary cycle of education, compared to 51 percent of girls from the general population.………….'Government is implementing the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (Education for All) programme for universalisation of elementary education by 2010………….Even as India is increasingly being recognised internationally as a knowledge hub, on the flip side only 10 percent of its total student strength is enrolled in higher education. [View Full Article]