Teacher Related Indicators & EDI - DISE

Part V
Elementary Education in India : Analytical Report
development in general and elementary education in
particular. Among all states, Puducherry is ranked first
in the case of Primary (EDI, 0.799) and third in the case
of Upper Primary (EDI, 0.816) level of education. Not
of 0.816 followed by Chandigarh (EDI, 0.795) and
Daman and Diu (EDI, 0.789). With an EDI value of
0.723, Dadra and Nagar Haveli is ranked seventh within
the seven smaller states.
Table E3(A)
Indices & Ranking at Primary/Upper Primary Level: Smaller States/UTs
All Managements: All Schools, 2007-08
Access Index Infrastructure Index Teachers Index
State/UT Primary Rank Upper Rank Primary Rank Upper Rank Primary Rank Upper Rank
Level Primary Level Primary Level Primary
Level Level Level
A & N Islands 0.127 7 0.544 7 0.888 1 0.871 2 0.850 5 0.900 4
Chandigarh 0.500 4 0.760 3 0.785 5 0.808 3 0.991 1 0.998 1
D & N Haveli 0.633 1 0.741 4 0.607 7 0.683 7 0.606 7 0.848 7
Daman & Diu 0.381 6 0.809 1 0.787 4 0.824 4 0.876 3 0.858 6
Goa 0.458 5 0.607 6 0.708 6 0.866 6 0.732 6 0.911 2
Lakshadweep 0.535 2 0.795 2 0.836 3 0.849 1 0.874 4 0.867 5
Puducherry 0.528 3 0.736 5 0.880 2 0.890 5 0.880 2 0.910 3
Outcome Index
EDI
State/UT Primary Rank Upper Rank Primary Rank Upper Rank Composite (Primary Rank
Level Primary Level Primary & Upper Primary)
Level Level Level
A & N Islands 0.580 5 0.669 3 0.652 6 0.762 5 0.707 6
Chandigarh 0.509 6 0.561 7 0.730 3 0.795 3 0.763 3
D & N Haveli 0.480 7 0.602 5 0.588 7 0.723 7 0.656 7
Daman & Diu 0.722 3 0.640 4 0.712 4 0.789 4 0.750 4
Goa 0.798 2 0.563 6 0.677 5 0.754 6 0.716 5
Lakshadweep 0.701 4 0.756 1 0.756 2 0.821 1 0.788 2
Puducherry 0.860 1 0.685 2 0.799 1 0.816 2 0.808 1
only that it could improve its position in composite
Primary and Upper Primary index but it has also
advanced from second (EDI, 0.761) position in 2006-07
to first (EDI, 0.799) position with regard to Primary level
of education. Irrespective of its educational level,
Puducherry is ranked first among the smaller set of states
but it is not true in the case of all the four individual sets
of indicators used in computing the EDI, both at the
Primary and Upper Primary levels of education. The
second among these states is Lakshadweep with an EDI
of 0.756 at Primary and 0.788 in composite Primary and
Upper Primary level of education. In case of Upper
Primary level, Puducherry is ranked second with an EDI
It may be of interest to note that Chandigarh’s
overall ranking is 6 th (EDI 0.730) at the Primary and 4 th
(EDI 0.795) at Upper Primary level of education. The other
smaller state doing better in overall all-India ranking is
Lakshadweep, which has only 37 schools under its
administration. It stands third at Primary level (EDI, 0.756)
and second (EDI, 0.821) at Upper Primary level of
education. Except teachers index, it has outperformed
other states in all other sets of indices. Irrespective of the
states, the EDI value at Upper Primary level of education
is much higher than at the Primary level of education
that is quite similar to the states in the north-eastern
region and also during the previous year. Further, it is
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