Minister of School Education-Maharashtra

It is rightly stated that today’s children are the builders of tomorrow and the leader(s of future. Maharashtra state has more than 4 crore children under age of 18 years, which constitutes more than one third of the total population of the state.

The state, in year 2010-11, had 97,256 Elementary schools of which 49,085 are Primary schools, 48,171 are Upper Primary schools and 5,595 are Secondary and Higher secondary schools. Of the total number of Elementary schools, 67,241 (69%) are Government managed schools and 30,015 (31%) schools are private managed schools. The ratio of Primary to Upper primary schools is 1.64, which is lower than the norm (2).