Gujarat has fared poorly as compared to states like neighbouring Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh in the retention rate of school students in higher secondary classes.
Gujarat has a low retention rate of 40.82% in higher secondary Education for the year 2019-20. Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh have fared better with 62.69% and 42.09% respectively.
Even other states like Karnataka (46.39%), Haryana (64.15%) and Himachal Pradesh (69.11%) have been better performers in this category.
Gujarat has done slightly better than Rajasthan where the retention rate is 39.33%. In the case of primary education, the retention rate in Gujarat is 95.04% while for elementary education its 89.82% before further dropping to 65% at secondary level. Kerala and Chandigarh have seen 100% retention at higher secondary level.
The Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSEL), ministry of education has developed the Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) system to record data on indicators of school education provided by all the states and Union territories.