Government schools in JK shrink by 19 per cent
Due to the zero or low enrolment of students in government schools, the total number of public schools in Jammu Kashmir has decreased by nearly 19 percent.
Senior officials from the department informed the news agency KNO, “We had some government schools with very low student enrolment, some even with fewer than five students. We merged them with nearby government schools.”
They also mentioned that these schools were previously listed separately on UDISE. “Previously, we had 23,117 government schools according to UDISE, but in the updated database, there are only 18,820 schools.”
“We had almost 4,300 government schools with fewer than five or zero student enrolments,” the official stated, clarifying that there are no longer any government schools with zero enrolment.
“In recent...