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  • 93.4 per cent of children in the 6-14 age group enrolled in school, 75 per cent in government schools, 16 per cent in private ones.
  • But 52 per cent of children who enrol in Class 1 drop out by Class 8, 62 per cent by Class X.
  • 35 per cent of children in the 7-14 age group in rural schools cannot read a simple paragraph, 52 per cent cannot read a short story, 41 per cent cannot do either two-digit subtraction or division problems.
Sources: Annual State of Education Report, 2005 (facilitated by Pratham), and Union HRD ministry statistics
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