Rural Schools Shut Due To Poor Enrollment: Odisha

The Odisha government has been on a mission to close schools with poor student enrollment for years. Almost 200 schools with low student enrollment were closed in 2014. In 2019, close to 1,000 schools were closed. In reality, the state administration had intended to close over 14,000 schools in stages, but the figure was reduced to half last year when the Right to Education (RTE) Forum and opposition parties took up the cause.