MYSURU: As many as 261 schools downed the shutters and nearly 50% of the eligible children did not seek admission for pre-primary classes for 2020-21, the first academic year badly affected by stringent Covid-19 lockdown measures, according to an analysis of a report prepared by the Unified District Information System for Education Plus (Udise+).
Most of the schools which closed in the first year of the pandemic were from the private sector and they were conducting Classes 1 to 12 across the state. Interestingly, though the number of schools came down, the number of teachers increased from 4,50,592 (during 2019-20) to 4,54,323 during 2020-21.
