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Kerala tops NITI Aayog's school education quality ranking, UP last

Karnataka, along with Uttarakhand, saw the biggest drop

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Sanjeeb MukherjeeAgencies New Delhi
Haryana, Odisha, and Assam are the big states that have improved the most from 2015-16 to 2016-17 in the second edition of the school education quality index, released by NITI Aayog.

Karnataka, along with Uttarakhand, saw the biggest drop. 

The rankings — based on parameters like the number of schools with the largest number of toilets for girl children, the average score of students in mathematics and language in classes III, V, and VIII, the transition rate of students from primary to upper primary levels and also from upper primary levels to secondary level — show that Kerala and Tamil Nadu continue