More girls aged 4-8 enrolled in govt schools, boys went to pvt ones: Report

Despite major government initiatives over the decades, early education in government-run schools in rural India greatly lag the quality of private schools. almost half of the children in Class III can't read Class I-level text. 

Unlike earlier, the enrolment levels among girls overtook that of boys by a significant margin for 4-8-year-olds. Moreover, after nearly a decade of falling enrolment rates for 4-5-year-old children, the rates have finally topped the 2008-level. 

“Gender gaps are visible even among young children, with more girls than boys enrolled in government institutions and more boys than girls enrolled in private institutions,” the ASER report