School Education Minister Kedar Kashyap released the 9th annual report ‘Asar-2013’ related to education in the schools of rural areas of Chhattisgarh, published by voluntary organisation ‘Pratham’ at his official residence here.
In the report, it was said that more than 97 per cent children of the age group of 6 to 14 years of rural areas of Chhattisgarh have been
admitted in schools. It is the fourth consecutive year in the new state that more than 97 per cent children were admitted in the schools.
In Chhattisgarh, three and four year old children, 74.3 and 72.8 per cent respectively, go to anganbadi centres, whereas, at national level, the percentage is 56.8 and 54.8 respectively. It was also reported that with the efforts of the state government proper arrangement for drinking water has been made in 76 per schools in the state.
Asar is a domestic survey on the education of children in rural India. In 2013, with the assistance of district education and training institution (DIET), survey of 14,637 school children of the age group of 3 to 16 years in 444 villages of 15 districts of the state had been done and report has been published.
Secretary school education department Dinesh Shrivastava, director of SCERT Raipur Anil Rai, director Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Reena Baba Saheb Kangale and state coordinator of Pratham Gaurav Sharma and other officers concerned were present at
the function.