Enrolment in Primary Schools Conducted by PMC

Statistics pertaining to enrolment in the primary schools conducted by the Pune Municipal Corporation’s Board of Education has been compiled from two sources. The Board of Education publishes a report of its activities every year. Details such as the total number of schools, medium of instruction-wise classification of total number of schools, teachers therein, number of students enroled, gender-wise break up of the total number of students are provided in these annual reports in an aggregative form. One does not get standard-wise enrolment of students through this set of data. The Board of Education has classified total number of schools under its jurisdiction into nine geographical zones. These zones have been defined taking into account the administrative convenience of the Board. Further, all the Urdu medium schools have been clubbed into a separate zone. Urdu medium schools scattered all over the city have been included in this zone. Accordingly, all the schools under the Board have been classified into the aforesaid ten zones. These annual reports, hence, prove to be a very valuable source of published official data. ISPE could obtain copies of these annual reports for the period of three decades between 1975-76 and 2005-06, (at the time of conducting this study). The annual reports of the Board, however, do not provide zonal classification of schools and enrolment therein.