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    Over 5,000 govt schools sit empty with zero students; 70% in Telangana and West Bengal


    PTI INFOGRAPHICS | Over 5,000 govt schools sit empty with zero students; 70% in Telangana and West Bengal

    Of 10.13 lakh government schools across India, 5,149 have no students at all. And more than 70 per cent of these schools reporting zero enrolment in the 2024-25 academic year are in Telangana and West Bengal, according to government data.

    The broader category of schools "with less than 10 or zero enrolment" has also seen a sharp surge, reveals data shared by the education ministry in Parliament recently.

    The number of such government schools grew by 24 per cent over the last two years – from 52,309 in 2022-23 to 65,054 in 2024-25. These schools now account for 6.42 per cent of the country's total government schools, the government said in a written reply to questions by MPs Karti P Chidambaram and Amrinder Singh Raja Warring in the Lok Sabha.

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    1. AfterSwordfish6342 on

      Why do all indians think lakh is an international unit of measurement? It means nothing outside of india mate

      I and most people here have no clue what it means

    2. OkBend1779 on

      I live near one of these government schools with 0 student in West Bengal, with a few more in my city.

      I’d say declining population and increasing income are the primary cause from what I can observe near me. Government schools have this stigma of being horrible (rightfully so) and in small towns private schools and often missionary schools are not too expensive, for example I used to pay about 300-700 INR per month for private schools up until my high school about 15 years ago, which was still considered affordable by lower income class at that time.

      Some 1-3 government schools which managed to survive solely because of their internal management and sheer will of their teachers to provide quality education and not because of any government help to be so (important to point that out because the state government really don’t care about primary education).

    3. DrArmin on

      And why is this? Bad allocation of schools, maybe fraud schools set up to profit from govt funding, or what is the main reason?

    5. Ana_Na_Moose on

      How is this any different from America using imperial measurements?

      As an American, this measurement does make the information not immediately clear to me, but I could always clear things up with a quick google search