All India Survey Report on Higher Education, 2016-17

AISHE Final Report 2016-17 on higher education

Question: Which of the following Indian state has topped the Higher Education nomination in recently released All India Survey, 2016-17 on Higher Education?
(a) Kerala
(b) Karnataka
(c) Tamilnadu
(d) Andhra Pradesh
Answer: (c)
Related Facts::

  • On January 5th, 2018, ‘All India Survey, 2016-17 Report’ on Higher Education was released.
  • This report was released by the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
  • In the report, Gross Enrolment Ratio of Tamil Nadu is 46.9 percent.
  • This is the highest among the Indian states.
  • Chandigarh, in the category of the Union Territories, registered GER of 56.1 percent.
  • Tamilnadu has also performed better in terms of male and female GER data.
  • Also, GER figures of its Scheduled Castes are also better
  • GER of Bihar, Assam, West Bengal and Odisha are low.
  • Which are 14.4 percent, 17.2 percent, 18.5 percent and 21 percent, respectively.
  • In this context, Uttar Pradesh has moderately better performance.
  • Its GIR was close to the national average (24.9%).
  • GER is calculated in reference to the age group of 18-23 years.
  • That is, it shows the gross enrollment ratio of the age group 18-23 years in the given school year.
  • Tamil Nadu’s Women’s ‘Gross Enrollment Ratio’ (GER) was 45.6 percent.
  • In this context, it is at the third place after union territories of Chandigarh and Delhi.
  • In the case of male GER, Tamil Nadu is at the top of the list of all states and union territories with 48.2 percent.
  • After this there are Union Territories like Chandigarh and Delhi.
  • Tamil Nadu is at the top of all the major states with reference to GER of Scheduled Castes with 38.3 percent.
  • All India GER has increased from 23 percent in 2013-2014 to 25.2 percent in current (2016-17).
  • Government is hopeful of up to 30% of all India GER till 2022
  • Total enrollment of students in the year 2016-17 is 35.7 million in entire India.
  • There were 19 million males and 16.7 million females.

Reference:
http://pibphoto.nic.in/documents/rlink/2018/jan/p20181501.pdf
http://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1515710
http://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/PR_AISHE-2017-18.pdf
http://aishe.nic.in/aishe/viewDocument.action?documentId=239