West Bengal has more girl students than boys
Sun, Jul 11 2021 9:06 IST |
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Kolkata, July 11 : West Bengal is the only major state in the country where girl students have outnumbered boys. A recent survey released by the Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) shows that only three other states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya have enrolled more girl students than boys.
State-wise data released by the UDISE+ shows that of the 18,74,87,792 students enrolled from pre-primary to class XII in the academic session of 2019-20, there are 2,32,012 more girl students than boys. When the number of girl students is 94,89,902, the number of boy students is 92,57,890.