2021 State of Education Report for India: No teacher No class

The 2021 Status of Education report was released by UNESCO in October 2021, with the theme: No Teacher No Class. The report is based on the analysis of Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) of National Statistical Office (NSO) and Unified District Information system for Education (UDISE) of 2018-19.

Findings of the Report

• Single Teacher Schools:
  • There are nearly 1.2 lakh single-teacher schools in the country most of which (89%) are in rural areas.
  • States with high percentage of single-teacher schools are- Arunachal Pradesh (18.22%), Goa (16.08%), Telangana (15.71%), Andhra Pradesh (14.4%), Jharkhand (13.81%).
• Women Teachers:
  • Half of India’s 9.43 million school teachers are ....