{"id":6331,"date":"2024-06-14T02:30:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T02:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6331"},"modified":"2024-06-14T02:30:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T02:30:51","slug":"more-than-4000-schools-shut-in-assam-during-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/more-than-4000-schools-shut-in-assam-during-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;More than 4,000 schools shut in Assam during Covid&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 4,000 schools, from primary to secondary levels, mostly under private management, shut down in<u>Assam<\/u>between April 2021 and March 2022. The <a href=\"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/education\">Education<\/a> ministry has attributed this to the impact of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>The Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) report by the ministry published earlier this week shows that the impact of the pandemic forced 20,000 schools to close down across the country during the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Sources in the state education department pointed out that the &#8216;s policy of amalgamation of government schools has also contributed to a noticeable decline in the number of schools in the state.<br \/> A decline in the number of schools has been reported from all the northeastern states.<\/p>\n<p>The closure of the schools has also reduced the teacher strength both nationally and at the state level.<\/p>\n<p>The teacher strength in the country from the primary to the higher secondary level, reduced from 96.96 lakh in 2020-2021 to 95.07 lakh in 2021-2022.<br \/> The number of teachers in Assam declined to 3.52 lakh in the latest report from 3.7 lakh, which accounts for nearly a 10% reduction in teacher strength in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 4,000 schools, from primary to secondary levels, mostly under private management, shut down inAssambetween April 2021 and March 2022. 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