EDUCATION

A statistical Cell comprising of one Statistical officer, four Statistical Inspectors, two computors and two Field Supervisors functions in the Directorate of Education, Puducherry and one computor is working in the Office of the Karaikal region. The Cell is primarily engaged in the collection, compilation, tabulation of primary data relating to educational activities being carried out in the State. Reports containing the data on list of educational institutions, enrolment of students in schools, strength of teaching and non-teaching staff, infrastructure facilities available in schools, statistical tables consisting data on students strength - stage-wise, gross enrolment ratio, teacher - pupil ratio etc., are also prepared by the Cell. Periodical returns are prepared for onward transmission to the Ministry of Education for incorporation in the Publication “Statistics of Education in States”. An Annual Report of numerical and financial data of school level education and higher education and examination results are furnished to the Ministry of Human Resources Development.