Telling Numbers: 2 in 3 schools have electricity; 5 Northeast states in bottom 10 | Explained News, The Indian Express

Telling Numbers: 2 in 3 schools have electricity; 5 Northeast states in bottom 10 | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Express News Service |New Delhi |Updated: July 9, 2019 5:46:25 am

Telling Numbers: 2 in 3 schools have electricity; 5 Northeast states in bottom 10

Less than two-thirds (63.14%) of the country’s schools have electricity connections.

The ministry reply said that under the erstwhile Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) until 2017-18 and the present Samagra Shiksha (effective from 2018-19), 1,95,519 government elementary schools have been provided internal electrification until March 2019.

Less than two-thirds (63.14%) of the country’s schools have electricity connections, according to data from the Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) for 2017-18 (provisional) tabled in Lok Sabha on Monday.