Nagaland records highest school dropouts in country
The student dropout rate in Nagaland's primary schools, in Grades I-V, stood at 19.4%, four times above the national average of 4.3%, making it the state with highest school dropout rate in the country. The data was presented by Jenpu Rongmei, Chief Functionary, Community Avenue Network Youth of Nagaland. He informed that dropout rate of secondary (IX-X) stood at 35.1%.