Asia and Asia-Pacific

India

Since the Indian government amended its Constitution last year, making education a fundamental right for all under the 93rd Amendment, efforts in the country to get children into school have picked up pace. However, gender parity has not been a major priority of the Indian Government and as such the country is now ranked as having the fourth largest gender gap in secondary education in the world. The Tenth National Action Plan aims to make gender parity an area of key concern in education reforms, but an immense amount of effort needs to be done if India is going to achieve gender parity by 2005.

Primary Education

Primary School Enrolment Ratio (gross 1995-2001) Primary School Enrolment Ratio (net 1995-2001) Net Primary School Attendance (%) (1992-2001*) % of Primary School entrants reaching Grade5 (1995-2001*) % Gender Gap (net male – net female) Male Female Male Female Male Female     99 82 78 64 79 73 60 6

Adult Literacy Ratio (2000)

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