Agartala, June 2: Tripura has made a record of sort — though a disheartening one. The state has registered a school dropout rate between Classes I and X at 80 per cent — a whopping 15 per cent higher than the national average. According to official statistics, the rate is even higher at 86 per cent among the tribal students.
Education minister Anil Sarkar today admitted in the state Assembly that the pathetic state of infrastructure and insurgency has wreaked havoc on the state education system. The decade-long insurgency has taken a heavy toll on lives and property, but the education system in the state has emerged as the worst victim with closure of hundreds of schools in the interiors of the state, he said.
Non-tribal teachers and non-teaching staff can’t go to the interior places for fear of being killed or abducted.