YS Jaganmohan Reddy's five-year's term was exposed for its financial indiscipline and making the state economy a mess. The latest NITI Aayog report also exposed how badly it was damaged. Moreover, another report from the Center exposing the regimes contributing to the deterioration of educational standards.
The Center has made it clear that the education standards have deteriorated due to the Nadu-Nedu program, which was organized with great fanfare during the YS Jagan government. The center has exposed the shortcomings of this program. It has alleged that this program has become completely chaotic.
The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) released a detailed report in New Delhi on Tuesday. The report, along with statistics, explained how the education system has deteriorated due to the misdeeds made by the then officials in the previous government. ASER has included education standards from 2018 to 2024 in this report.
However, the report states that education standards have deteriorated in Andhra Pradesh between 2022 and 2024. The report also explained that children, especially in rural areas, are not even able to do addition and subtraction in calculations. For example, the number of children aged 6 to 14 attending government schools fell from 63.2 percent in 2018 to 61.8 percent by 2024.
The school enrollment rate for children aged 15-16 has also declined from 9 percent in 2018 to 1.3 percent in 2024. Similarly, the number of children studying in third grade who were able to read a second grade textbook was 22.4 percent in 2018, but it fell to 10.4 percent in 2022, and again to 15.7 percent in 2024, the ASER report said.
The report, along with statistics, stated that the ability to read second-grade books among fifth-grade students had declined from 59.7 percent in 2018 to 36.4 percent in 2022, and from 37.7 percent in 2024. Similarly, the ability to read well among fifth-grade students had declined from 39.3 percent in 2018 to 29.6 percent in 2022, and from 36.2 percent in 2024.
On the other hand, the ability to read at least second-grade books among eighth-grade students had declined from 78.2 percent in 2018 to 66.4 percent in 2022 and from 56.2 percent in 2024, the report revealed.