UP lags behind in education on this scale
In the first eight months of the financial year 2024-25, more than 11.70 lakh children have been identified across the country who are not studying in school. minister of State for education Jayant Chaudhary gave this information in the lok sabha on Monday. Responding to a written question in the House, Chaudhary also said that the highest number of such children is in Uttar Pradesh. Chaudhary said, "The Department of school education and Literacy of the Ministry of education operates the 'Prabandh' portal, on which the states and union territories provide and update data related to children not registered in schools." According to the data shared by the minister, a total of 11,70,404 children have been identified as 'out of school' children. The maximum number of out-of-school children is in Uttar Pradesh (7.84 lakh), followed by jharkhand (over 65,000) and assam (over 63,000).
Samajwadi party took a jibe
Samajwadi party chief and Kannauj mp Akhilesh Yadav has also reacted to this figure of the Center. He wrote on the social media site X - Will the UP government itself put up the hoarding of this achievement of the UP bjp government or will the opposition get it done?
Apart from this, in response to another question, Jayant Chaudhary said that in the session 2024-25, about 7,90,999 students from about 4,538 schools have opted for AI at the secondary level (class IX and X) and about 50,343 students from about 944 schools have opted for AI at the senior secondary level (class XI and XII combined).