Five years, 10 states: Where India’s government school count fell the most
The latest UDISE+ series tabled in the Lok Sabha records a net fall of 18,727 government schools over five academic years — from 10,32,049 in 2020–21 to 10,13,322 in 2024–25. Taken at face value, this can be read as a simple contraction. It is not. The year-wise pattern is uneven and state-driven: The big shifts…