Decline in variety of faculties, academics in Maharashtra however scholar enrolment up by 2.25 lakh: Report | Pune Information

On the state degree, regardless that the variety of secondary faculties elevated from 28,532 to 29,079 within the final 12 months, the variety of center faculties decreased from 29,445 to 29,252 and the variety of foundational+preparatory faculties decreased from 50,474 to 49,906.

Nonetheless, scholar enrolment numbers within the state have elevated by 2,25,904 in comparison with the earlier 12 months. In 2023-24 the enrolment of scholars throughout faculties of all managements was 2.13 crore whereas in 2022-23 it was 2.11 crore. That is in opposition to the nationwide development which exhibits that scholar enrolment numbers dropped from 25.17 crore to 24.80 crore within the final 12 months.

Based on Professor Geeta Shinde, HOD of Savitribai Phule Pune College’s (SPPU) Schooling and Extension Division, the cluster college scheme could possibly be the rationale why the variety of faculties lowered. Cluster faculties are fashioned by merging faculties with lower than 20 college students with different faculties inside a 20-km radius. Moreover, she stated that poor connectivity and lack of transportation in some areas might have led to the closure of colleges.

In the meantime, the variety of academics in Maharashtra has decreased. The 2023-24 report stated that there have been 7.38 lakh academics within the state whereas in 2022-23 it recorded 7.42 lakh academics, a lower of 4,202 academics.

“Over the previous 15-20 years, there was no state-wide instructor recruitment in Maharashtra. Though makes an attempt have been made to deal with this situation, many recruitment processes have been marred by corruption. Moreover, lots of the recruited academics lack proficiency within the native language, contributing to a scarcity of certified educators,” stated Shinde.

Pc services

As many as 70,075 or 64.7 per cent of the 1,08,237 faculties in Maharashtra have practical desktops/PCs. This can be a slight improve from the earlier 12 months when 63.7 per cent of colleges within the state had entry to laptop services. Maharashtra performs higher on this statistic in comparison with states like Uttar Pradesh (17.17%) and Madhya Pradesh (19.7%) however is surpassed by states like Kerala (69.9%), Punjab (92.2%), and Gujarat (70.4%).

The UDISE+ stories are based mostly on voluntary importing of information by faculties having lively UDISE+ codes within the respective educational years. For 2023-24, the cutoff date to submit information was March 31, 2024. UDISE was launched in 2012-13 and has been known as UDISE+ since 2018-19 when it started to be immediately monitored by the Ministry of Schooling.