Student Flow at Primary Level - DISE

Drop-out & Repetition Rates49IV), Rajasthan (Grades II and III), Uttar Pradesh (Grade III), Maharashtra(Grade IV) and West Bengal (Grade IV) reported high drop-out rates evenin rest of the primary grades. But it is Grade V which has reported thehighest (20.27 percent) drop-out rate among the primary grades. In Bihar,it is high at 30.39 percent compared to 20.48 percent in Chhattisgarh,35.41 percent in Haryana, 31.71 percent in Madhya Pradesh, 28.71 percentin Rajasthan, 43.62 percent in Uttarakhand and 19.20 percent in UttarTable 22Distribution of States by Average Drop-out and Repetition RateCohort 2003-04RepetitionRateDrop-out RateBelow 5 % 5 to 10 % 10-15 % 15-20 % Above 20 %Below 5 % Tamil Nadu Assam Orissa UttarKerala Karnataka PradeshChandigarh -Mizoram5 to 10 % Nagaland Maharashtra Uttaranchal AndhraHimachal - PradeshPradeshMeghalaya10-15 % Gujarat Bihar Haryana RajasthanJharkhand West BengalPunjab Madhya -Pradesh15 -20 % - Chhattisgarh - - -Above 20 % TripuraSikkim - - - -Pradesh. Kerala with 1.93 percent reported the lowest drop-out rate inGrade V compared to an over-all average of 1.34 percent in its primarygrades which is also the lowest across the 29 States and UTs considered inthe analysis.Grade-specific promotion, repetition and drop-out rates separately forboys, girls and total enrolment for cohorts 2003-04 and 2004-05 are givenin Annexure A (Table A1 to A5).States Grouped by High & Low Drop-out & Repetition RatesThe States and UTs distributed according to high and low drop-out and