Even after three years of implementation, the Official Statistics still present enrolment and indicators as per the then levels of education, such as primary, upper primary, secondary, and higher secondary education. Even though some modifications are suggested in the Annual Work Plan and Budget under Samagra Shiksha, neither the UDISE+ data present the data as per the modified structure, nor the district plan analysis & indicators are focussed on the modified structure.
As has already been mentioned above, given the structural changes in the school sector, there is a need to relook into the existing indicators. In this article, an attempt has been made to explore possibilities to look at the existing indicators and construct them as per the new restructured phases of education. The enrolment is also redistributed as per the restructured phases.
The official enrolment data published through the UDISE+ is used to compute indicators. Official projected child population (Expert Committee) had been used to compute a variety of enrolment ratios, including the NER, adjusted-NER, and age-specific enrolment ratios at different phases of school education. Perhaps this is the first attempt through which indicators are computed as per the modified structure.







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