Though more than two-third of enrolled children have smart phones in their homes, it is not available to 4.7 per cent children for their use.
The number of children not enrolled in schools in Gujarat more than doubled in a year from the figures in 2020, reveals the 16th Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) released on Wednesday.
According to ASER 2020, 1.5 per cent children in the age group of 6 to 14 years were not enrolled in schools. This has increased to 3.3 per cent within a year in 2021. This includes a higher number of girls — 4.2 per cent and 2.5
per cent boys. In 2018, this average was 1.7 per cent
Conducted between September and October 2021, almost 18 months after the first lockdown due to the Covid pandemic, the survey explores how children in the age group of 5 to 16 years were studying at home and the challenges that schools and households now face as schools reopen across states.