Rural edu indicators outperform urban in state: Parakh survey

Jaipur: In Rajasthan, the performance of rural areas is better compared to urban areas for education indicators like reading, writing, and comprehension of language subjects and mathematics. The Parakh Rashtriya Sarvekshan 2024, released by the Ministry of Education, Govt of India, stated, "Students from rural schools performed higher than the national average, with a 7% higher score in language as well as in mathematics."

The report mentioned that in Rajasthan, students from urban schools performed higher than the national average, with a 4% higher score in language and a 5% higher score in mathematics.

This survey was conducted to test the reading-writing ability and understanding of Hindi, English, and mathematics for class 3 students and Hindi/English, mathematics, science, and social science subjects for Class 6 and 9 students. At all three levels, Rajasthan's performance is better than the national average.

According to the survey, Rajasthan's average in linguistic knowledge in class 3 was 6% higher than the national average. While the national average is 64%, Rajasthan scored 70% marks. Rajasthan's average in mathematics was also 66%, which is 6% higher than the national average