Education shocker in Bengal - 24% students in Class-I cannot recognise the digits 1 to 9

A real shocker has come to surface regarding education in Bengal - here, students of Government schools have poor mathematical skills. A little less than one in four (or 24%) of Bengal's Class-I students are unable to recognize the digits 1 to 9.
This is as per a report of the nationwide Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) that has been prepared by the NGO, Pratham.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 19 January 2017.

In addition, 17.7% of rural Bengal students (all districts except Kolkata) of class-III could not read upper-case English letters and 14.5% could read the upper case but not lower-case ones. More than one in five (or 22.6%) could read the lower case but not words or sentences, 26.6% could read words but not sentences and 18.7% could read simple sentences.
Moreover, 58.4% students of classes I to V took private tuition in 2014 and, in 2016, it went up to 60.3%. Obviously, education in Government schools in Bengal needs to get a boost.


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