BackClaim Check: Sonia Gandhi on school dropout rate in Gujarat
Congress party president Sonia Gandhi says Gujarat has the highest school dropout rate in India
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Claim: Gujarat has the highest school dropout rate in India.
Who: Congress party president Sonia Gandhi.
Where: At an election rally in Valsad, Gujarat, on Thursday.
Check: She is wrong.
According to latest available data, the highest dropout rate among school students (Class I-X) was reported from both Assam and Meghalaya (77.4%), followed by Nagaland (75.1%), Sikkim (69.9%) and Rajasthan (68.5%). Gujarat has a dropout rate of 57.9%, and this is worse than the national average dropout rate of 49.3%.
Source: Statistics of School Education 2010-11, ministry of human resource development.
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