NITI Aayog Releases Policy Report on ‘School Education System in India: Temporal Analysis and Policy Roadmap for Quality Enhancement’

• A NITI Aayog policy report offering a decade-long temporal analysis of India's school education across access, infrastructure, equity and learning outcomes, with a roadmap aligned to NEP 2020.
• India runs the world's largest school system: 14.71 lakh schools, 24.69 crore students, ~98 lakh teachers — but government-school share of enrolment has fallen from 71% (2005) to 49.24% (2024-25).
• Important for UPSC because it consolidates UDISE+, NAS, PARAKH, ASER data into one examinable document and proposes 13 recommendations / 33 pathways / 125+ indicators.