Hyderabad: The school dropout rates in the state have actually considerably enhanced over the past two years, from 2016-17 to 2018-19, according to the information offered with the Unified District Details System for Education (UDISE), and launched by the Union education ministry on Monday.As per the data, the Telangana state dropout rate stood at 13.5 per cent in 2018-19 for secondary school, 2.9 percent for upper primary and 1.9 per cent for main school, in comparison to 2017-18 and 2016-17.

The dropout rate in 2017-18 for secondary school stood at 17.1 per cent, upper main at 2.6 per cent, and main at 3.5 per cent, whereas in the 2016-17 academic year, secondary school dropouts in the state amounted to 22.5 percent, upper primary at 5.6 per cent and primary school dropouts at 7.6 per cent.Earlier, report in Deccan Chronicle on February 24 on enrolment in state high schools for 2020-21 had priced quote information from the TS education department which had actually likewise shown a favorable pattern.

Experts had raised doubts over the same, pointing out absence of physical data due to pandemic.

More stakeholders, consisting of government teachers, have now argued that this data does not reflect the genuine photo in existing times.A government teacher in Hyderabad, who did not wish to be determined, stated that the data released by the Union federal government, and readily available on UDISE website, is only up until the 2018-19 scholastic year.

If the federal government is so confident about a favorable picture in the education sector of the nation, they ought to launch the latest numbers in the public domain too, they said.The Union education ministry launched statewise information in action to questions raised by MPs Prataprao Patil Chikhlikar and Anumula Revanth Reddy in the Lok Sabha on Monday, concerning school dropout rates during the last two years, particularly in Maharashtra.