Student Flow at Primary Level - DISE

38 Student Flow at Primary Levelforward state reported a promotion rate of 90.39 percent in Grade Icompared to only 78.30 percent in the national capital Delhi. One of theother interesting features is that Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadureported above 90 percent promotion rate which is true for all primarygrades. On the other hand promotion rate in Grade V in Bihar is as low as64.21 percent compared to 72.93 percent in Jharkhand and 68.13 percentin the state of Madhya Pradesh. The promotion rate in other primarygrades in Madhya Pradesh is quite high. The state should look into reasonsof lower promotion rate and adopt appropriate strategies. The increasein enrolment in primary classes in general and Grade I in particular inrecent years is clearly a reflection on the programme like, mid-day mealscheme and enrolment drives carried out under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyanprogramme but the data available for the last 3 years do not suggestsignificant decline in drop-out rate which is still very high.Repetition RateThe grade-specific as well as average repetition rate in primary classespresented in Table 15 for 2004-05 shows a decline over the same in theprevious year. However, DISE data suggests that as many as 9.99 millionFigure 9Average Flow Rates: Primary Classes I-V Cohort 2004-05*children repeated elementary grades in 2005-06 which is about 5.9 percentof total elementary enrolment. About 85 percent of the total repeaterswere located in the rural areas and the balance 15 percent in the urbanareas. Of the total repeaters, 53 percent were boys and the remaining 47