<b>Enrolment by medium of instruction in India (Class I to VIII)</b>
Data collected by the National University for Education Planning and Administration (NUEPA) for session 2005-06
Medium ||No. of children enrolled ||% of total enrolment
Hindi ||7,83,74,227 ||52.2
Marathi ||1,21,21,341 ||8.0
English ||95,10,381 ||6.3
Telugu ||87,44,863 ||5.8
Tamil ||75,70,536 ||5.0
Gujarati ||67,02,038 ||4.4
Kannada ||57,69,404 ||3.8
Oriya ||55,08,523 ||3.6
Assamese ||32,489,26 ||2.1
Urdu ||28,98,809 ||1.9
Malayalam ||28,30,950 ||1.8
India* ||15,00,36,836 ||100
- English-medium schools rose 74% during 2003-2006.
- Hindi-medium schools rose by 24% during same period. (with a much larger base)
- Only Hindi and Marathi among indic mediums have shown good grown. Telugu has also grown slightly.
- Other Indic mediums either remained stagnant or declined. Tamil remains stagnant.
- Kannada, Oriya, Malayalam have shown sharpest decline.
- The southern states account for over 60% of the English-medium
- Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, in that order, account for the highest jump in english enrolment. AP overtook TN in this trend this year.
- in NE English has gained monopoly - 90% enrolments.
- Within North, except for Punjab and Gujarat, English growth is much slower than Hindi growth.
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Data collected by the National University for Education Planning and Administration (NUEPA) for session 2005-06
Medium ||No. of children enrolled ||% of total enrolment
Hindi ||7,83,74,227 ||52.2
Marathi ||1,21,21,341 ||8.0
English ||95,10,381 ||6.3
Telugu ||87,44,863 ||5.8
Tamil ||75,70,536 ||5.0
Gujarati ||67,02,038 ||4.4
Kannada ||57,69,404 ||3.8
Oriya ||55,08,523 ||3.6
Assamese ||32,489,26 ||2.1
Urdu ||28,98,809 ||1.9
Malayalam ||28,30,950 ||1.8
India* ||15,00,36,836 ||100
- English-medium schools rose 74% during 2003-2006.
- Hindi-medium schools rose by 24% during same period. (with a much larger base)
- Only Hindi and Marathi among indic mediums have shown good grown. Telugu has also grown slightly.
- Other Indic mediums either remained stagnant or declined. Tamil remains stagnant.
- Kannada, Oriya, Malayalam have shown sharpest decline.
- The southern states account for over 60% of the English-medium
- Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, in that order, account for the highest jump in english enrolment. AP overtook TN in this trend this year.
- in NE English has gained monopoly - 90% enrolments.
- Within North, except for Punjab and Gujarat, English growth is much slower than Hindi growth.
http://schoolreportcards.in/Media/m66.html