From Peri Maheshwari - ♦️ *India Education Report Card (2014-2023):* Let us start with School Education. How has the government performed in the last decade? This thread will explain through data, India’s efforts to claim its demographic dividend. 1. India’s population grew from 121 Crores to about 139 crores in 2023, a growth of 14.64%. 2. *The Number of govt. schools in India were 12.04 lacs in 2014 but fell to 11.28 lacs by the end of 2022. While our population grew by about 15%, our public schools fell by 7%, thus widening the gap.* 3. Correspondingly, *private schools* went up from 2.55 lacs to 3.35 lacs, a growth of 32%. 4. While population growth should have led to an organic growth in enrollments, in reality, they didn’t keep pace. *In 2014, the total enrollments in schools were 268.30 lacs, which fell to 265.24 lacs in 2022, a fall of 1.2%.* 5. The three North Indian states - UP, MP & Rajasthan had 5.22 lac schools in 2014 which fell to 4.80 lac schools in...