Enrolment and Drop-Outs in PMC Conducted Purely Primary Schools (That is, Classes I-IV)

The data relating to the number of primary school students and teachers under the Pune Municipal Corporation start from 1970. The earlier records were not available in the office of the Corporation. The records containing the number of students were not available for the year 1983. Similarly, the records relating to the number of teachers and their total monthly salaries were not available for six years, 1977, 1979 to 1982, and 1986. The number of students on record for the year 2000 is suddenly very high. It is difficult for us to explain this sudden rise in one particular year, followed by its sharp decline in the next. (Our effort to seek an explanation by looking at enrolment data Zone-wise also failed since these data were not continuously and systematically available.)We have to bear with these limitations of the data in discussing trends.