The enrollment of children in the age group 6 to 14 years has been above 95%. However, for the first time ever, the number of children not enrolled in schools has gone below 3%.
At a budget of over Rs 370 crore, this initiative by the Centre is aimed to help state governments fill up vacancies in backward districts in 11 states where engineering students were suffering because of a shortage of teachers
The HRD ministry’s mandatory Aadhaar disclosure during the All India Survey on Higher Education 2016-17 (AISHE) report released on Friday revealed that there are over 80,000 teachers who are faculty members of three or more higher education institutions in the country.
The portal aims to document India’s languages, encouraging people to learn and speak in their mother tongues and gives endangered languages much-needed online visibility.