Uttar Pradesh: 1.9 crore children are enrolled in "School Chalo Abhiyan"

The Minister of Basic Education, Sandeep Singh, announced at a press conference on Sunday that more than 40 lakh new children have been enrolled in schools across the state in the first 100 days of the Yogi 2.0 government. 

“The enrolment process in schools is in progress and we are seeing an increase in the number of children enrolling in basic shiksha parishad schools. In 2016-17, the enrolment was 1.52 crore which has increased to 1.90 crore in 2022-23,” he added.

The minister said, “To ensure transparency, registration of all the children enrolled in the schools was done on the Prerna portal and subsequently their Aadhaar authentication is being done. So far, the Aadhaar card of 1.66 crore children has been made and the work is progress on priority.”

“Against the registered children, the Aadhaar card of 1.10 crore children has been successfully authenticated. Along with this, Aadhaar authentication of 1.48 crore parents/guardians has also been done,” Singh added.

The minister said that all teachers had been given the opportunity to receive in-service teacher training through the “Diksha” program. He added that each teacher had also been given a certificate of completion for the in-service professional development course they had completed, and that each teacher had been given a unique ID in order to track their course completion.