Student Flow at Primary Level - DISE

Methodological Framework13Table 2 reveals that of the total 6-14 year old children in the rural areas,about 75.1 percent are enrolled in government managed schools, 16.4percent in private schools including private un-recognized schools, and1.0 percent each in Madrasas and Education Guarantee schools. The balanceof 6.3 percent children of 6-14 years age is not enrolled, of which 3.7percent are never enrolled and 2.9 percent dropped-out.Separate estimates have also been generated for the age-groups 6-10 and11-14 years and that too are made available separately for boys and girls.However, without specifying reasons, such estimates in case of boys andgirls in the age-group 6-14 are not made available. Of the total 6-10 yearold children, about 95.5 percent children are enrolled; correspondingfigures being 96.0 percent for boys and 94.9 percent for girls. This otherwisealso means that the remaining 3.9 percent boys and 5.1 percent girls areeither never enrolled or dropped-out from the system before completingan education cycle. It may also be observed that the enrolled children ofage group 6-10 years do not necessarily be in primary classes only. TheASER: PRATHAM collected information about children attending schoolsirrespective of the class. In view of this, the estimate of children attendingschools may be treated as age-specific enrolment which is different fromthe gross and net enrolment ratio. Like 6-10 years age-group, thepercentage of un-enrolled girls is also high for the age-group 11-14 yearswhich means that more than 11 percent girl’s of this age-group are notenrolled; among these the percentage of dropped-out girls is as high as6.3 percent. The corresponding percentage in the age-group 6-10 yearsfor girls is only 1.3 percent compared to 3.9 percent girls of this age-