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Table 2. Percentage of Children Aged 6–14 School Attendance Status in India and it’s States

From: Child Schooling and Child Work in India: Does Poverty Matter?

Name of states/UTs

Percentage of children aged 6–14 school attendance status

Never attended

Entered in school

Advanced in term of school attendance

Repeated in same class

Dropout

School left 2 or more years ago

Andhra radesh

10.1

3.5

76.8

1.0

2.2

6.4

Arunachal Pra.

26.7

9.3

52.9

6.4

0.3

4.5

Assam

7.9

5.1

76.4

3.0

1.5

6.1

Bihar

39.4

9.9

47.7

0.3

0.7

2.1

Chhattisgarh

13.8

10.8

65.0

4.3

2.0

4.2

Delhi

10.2

7.4

77.2

1.0

0.4

3.9

Goa

7.2

8.6

77.2

3.5

0.1

3.3

Gujarat

7.8

3.2

75.7

5.9

1.6

5.8

Haryana

12.6

6.6

74.1

1.8

0.6

4.3

Himachal Pra.

3.9

2.8

90.8

1.2

0.4

0.9

Jharkhand

25.2

12.1

53.9

1.3

0.4

7.1

J & K

12.5

7.6

73.4

1.6

0.4

4.5

Karnataka

11.4

9.1

71.7

1.0

0.9

5.9

Kerala

2.7

9.9

83.4

1.6

0.3

2.1

Madhya Pra.

20.1

8.2

65.7

1.9

0.8

3.2

Maharashtra

8.4

8.5

77.1

0.7

1.7

3.7

Manipur

19.3

6.6

70.7

1.2

0.5

1.6

Meghalaya

33.4

3.8

56.7

0.6

0.1

5.5

Mizoram

9.7

5.6

81.3

0.1

0.6

2.6

Nagaland

29.6

4.1

61.9

1.5

0.7

2.2

Odisha

12.5

6.9

71.0

2.6

2.9

4.2

Punjab

10.8

6.8

75.9

1.4

1.2

3.9

Rajasthan

18.5

8.1

66.4

1.3

2.3

3.4

Sikkim

20.7

12.7

57.7

5.6

0.3

3.1

Tamil Nadu

2.7

8.3

85.2

0.7

0.4

2.7

Tripura

10.8

8.1

72.2

5.7

0.9

2.4

Uttar Pradesh

19.7

8.2

65.4

1.6

1.9

3.3

Uttaranchal

6.3

2.0

81.0

7.3

0.3

3.0

West Bengal

14.3

9.5

66.3

3.5

1.6

4.8

India

15.5

7.5

69.9

2.0

1.2

3.8