BMC schools continue to lose students, down 32,000 this year itself
TNN | Updated: Jan 17, 2019, 05:36 IST
Representative imageMUMBAI: The twin trends of falling enrolment and student exodus reduced the pupil count in BMC schools by nearly 32,000 in 2017-18 over the previous academic year, showed the annual report of the NGO Praja Foundation on municipal education.
Praja predicted that at this rate no students would be left in civic schools by 2027-28. Only the English-medium schools bucked the trend, and it was more pronounced in the ones branded by the BMC as Mumbai Public Schools.
Based on data received under the right to information, the report said the total number of students in BMC schools dipped to 3.11 lakh in 2017-18 from 3.43 lakh in 2016-17. Enrolment in class I dropped to 30,075 from 32,218 between the two academic years.
The total number of students and class I enrolments around a decade ago were 4.04 lakh and 63,392, respectively. While over 29,000 students dropped out of the BMC school system in 2016-17, the figure was nearly 16,000 in 2017-18. Among the schools which showed a positive enrolment trend were English-medium schools.
A large chunk of these enrolments were at Mumbai Public Schools, started by the BMC in 2008 to provide English-medium education up to class X. Some of these schools, fully supported by NGOs like Akanksha, Aseema and Muktangan, showed an increase in enrolment by 18% in the past two years.
Praja predicted that at this rate no students would be left in civic schools by 2027-28. Only the English-medium schools bucked the trend, and it was more pronounced in the ones branded by the BMC as Mumbai Public Schools.
Based on data received under the right to information, the report said the total number of students in BMC schools dipped to 3.11 lakh in 2017-18 from 3.43 lakh in 2016-17. Enrolment in class I dropped to 30,075 from 32,218 between the two academic years.
The total number of students and class I enrolments around a decade ago were 4.04 lakh and 63,392, respectively. While over 29,000 students dropped out of the BMC school system in 2016-17, the figure was nearly 16,000 in 2017-18. Among the schools which showed a positive enrolment trend were English-medium schools.
A large chunk of these enrolments were at Mumbai Public Schools, started by the BMC in 2008 to provide English-medium education up to class X. Some of these schools, fully supported by NGOs like Akanksha, Aseema and Muktangan, showed an increase in enrolment by 18% in the past two years.
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