At a glance
- Each indicator has its own source: UDISE+ for schools, AISHE for higher education, NFHS for health outcomes, SRS for yearly birth, death and maternal-mortality rates, and the Census for literacy.
- In NFHS-5 Rajasthan does better than India on child stunting, institutional births and immunisation, but has more anaemia among children aged 6-59 months.
- On SRS maternal mortality, Rajasthan was above India in 2018-20 and below it in 2021-23.
- MAA is the state's main health-insurance scheme; the Nishulk Nirogi Rajasthan schemes give free medicines and free tests in government hospitals.
Schools in Rajasthan: UDISE+ 2024-25
UDISE+ (Unified District Information System for Education Plus) is the Ministry of Education's school-data system. The 2024-25 report counts schools that have a UDISE+ code, with data as on 31 March 2025. The figures below are for all managements together unless stated.
| Schools | 1,06,302 (India 14,71,473) |
|---|---|
| Teachers | 7,92,265 (India 1,01,22,420) |
| Enrolment, pre-primary to class 12 | 1,63,64,187 (India 24,69,32,680) |
| Pupil-teacher ratio, all levels | 21 (India 24) |
| Management | Schools | Teachers | Enrolment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Government (all) | 70,155 | 4,45,073 | 77,82,390 |
| of which State Government | 70,036 | 4,41,312 | 76,92,729 |
| Private unaided recognised | 33,548 | 3,39,793 | 84,51,556 |
| Others | 2,599 | 7,399 | 1,30,241 |
By school category (schools with classes up to that level): primary 36,778, upper primary 33,999, secondary 7,021 and higher secondary 28,504. Government-aided schools: none in Rajasthan.
School indicators, 2024-25: Rajasthan and India
| UDISE+ 2024-25 | Primary (1-5) | Upper primary (6-8) | Secondary (9-10) | Higher secondary (11-12) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross enrolment ratio, Rajasthan | 88.3 | 92.1 | 82.2 | 66.1 |
| Gross enrolment ratio, India | 90.9 | 90.3 | 78.7 | 58.4 |
| Pupil-teacher ratio, Rajasthan | 18 | 12 | 11 | 15 |
| Pupil-teacher ratio, India | 20 | 17 | 15 | 23 |
| Dropout rate, Rajasthan | 3.6 | 3.6 | 7.7 | |
| Dropout rate, India | 0.3 | 3.5 | 11.5 |
Gross enrolment ratio (GER) is enrolment at a level, of any age, as a percentage of the official age-group's population. GER in elementary classes (1-8): Rajasthan 89.7, India 90.6. The gender parity index of GER, as UDISE+ prints it to one decimal, is 1.0 at every level in Rajasthan.
| Flow, 2024-25 | Rajasthan | India |
|---|---|---|
| Transition rate, class 5 to 6 | 93.8 | 92.2 |
| Transition rate, class 8 to 9 | 90.2 | 86.6 |
| Transition rate, class 10 to 11 | 88.2 | 75.1 |
| Retention rate, classes 1 to 5 | 83.1 | 92.4 |
| Retention rate, classes 1 to 8 | 78.7 | 82.8 |
| Retention rate, classes 1 to 10 | 55.9 | 62.9 |
| Retention rate, classes 1 to 12 | 51.9 | 47.2 |
The 2024-25 report collects data student by student under NEP 2020, and says its GER, NER and dropout rates are not strictly comparable with reports up to 2021-22. The Economic Review 2025-26 prints Rajasthan's primary GER as 95.1 for 2023-24 and 88.3 for 2024-25, and its primary dropout rate as 7.6 and 3.6, from the UDISE+ reports of those years.
Higher education: AISHE 2023-24
AISHE (All India Survey on Higher Education), run by the Ministry of Education's Department of Higher Education, covers universities, colleges and standalone institutions. The 2023-24 final report (survey held November 2024 to June 2025) is the latest as of October 2026. Its GER and GPI are for the 18-23 age-group and use the 2011 Census population base.
| AISHE 2023-24 | Rajasthan | India |
|---|---|---|
| Universities registered | 93 | 1,289 |
| Colleges registered | 4,344 | 48,246 |
| Colleges that responded: government | 842 | 7,944 |
| Colleges that responded: private (aided 272, unaided 3,016) | 3,288 | 38,524 |
| Colleges per lakh population aged 18-23 | 47 | 32 |
| Average enrolment per college | 452 | 670 |
| Estimated total enrolment | 27,37,725 | 4,50,01,123 |
| GER, 18-23 years: all | 29.5 | 30.0 |
| GER: male | 28.8 | 28.9 |
| GER: female | 30.3 | 31.2 |
| GER: Scheduled Castes | 28.2 | 27.8 |
| GER: Scheduled Tribes | 28.8 | 22.8 |
| Gender parity index, 18-23 years | 1.05 | 1.08 |
| Pupil-teacher ratio, all institutions, regular mode | 25 | 22 |
The Economic Review 2025-26 (figures up to December 2025) adds the state's own counts: 73 engineering colleges (19 government, 54 private) and 52 MBA institutions. Medical education is in the health section below.
Literacy
Literacy rates are quoted from Census 2011 only, as no later census has published results. Rajasthan's total, male and female literacy and the district ranking are in the population notes (Geography of Rajasthan), section Literacy.
Education schemes running in 2025-26
Figures for 2025-26 are up to December 2025.
| Scheme | Department | Benefit | Started |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samagra Shiksha | School Education (Rajasthan Council of School Education) | Centrally sponsored (Centre : State 60 : 40); school education from pre-school to class 12, joining Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan and teacher education | |
| PM SHRI (Pradhan Mantri Schools for Rising India) | School Education | Existing schools developed as model, green schools; 639 in Rajasthan (90 elementary, 549 secondary, 1 Sanskrit) with about 2.96 lakh students | 2022 |
| Free textbooks | School Education (Rajasthan State Text Book Board) | Free books for classes 1-8 in government schools, all girls of classes 9-12, SC/ST students and children of parents who do not pay income tax; 4.05 crore books to 80 lakh students in 2025-26 | |
| Free bicycles | School Education | Bicycle to every girl enrolling in class 9 in a government school; 3.25 lakh in 2024-25 | |
| Free uniform | School Education | Direct bank transfer for uniform (2024-25: Rs 800 per student including stitching and bag, classes 1-8 and girls of 9-12, 41.26 lakh students; 2025-26: Rs 600 for classes 1-8) | |
| PM POSHAN (mid-day meal) | School Education (Mid-Day Meal Commissionerate) | Cooked meal in government schools and institutions for pre-primary to class 8: 68,480 schools and institutions, 57.01 lakh students in 2025-26 | |
| Utkrisht Vidyalaya Yojana | Elementary Education | One primary or upper primary school in each gram panchayat developed as an Utkrisht Vidyalaya; 8,373 working (1,575 primary, 6,798 upper primary) | |
| Mahatma Gandhi Government Schools (English Medium) | School Education | 3,737 schools with 6.84 lakh students in 2025-26 | |
| Swami Vivekananda Government Model Schools | School Education | CBSE-affiliated, classes 1-12, in educationally backward blocks: 134 schools in 134 blocks of 27 districts; at least 55 per cent seats for girls | |
| Kalibai Bhil Medhavi Chhatra Scooty Yojana | Higher Education | Scooty to meritorious girls who passed class 12 and enrolled in the first year of higher education | |
| Mukhya Mantri Shikshit Rajasthan Abhiyan (MSRA) | School Education | State campaign to implement NEP 2020; from 29 April 2025: AI-based oral reading fluency assessment, student attendance app and NIOS on-demand examinations |
Under the Right to Education Act 2009, in force in Rajasthan from 1 April 2010, 25 per cent of seats in private schools go to children of weaker and disadvantaged groups; the income limit for these admissions was raised from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2.50 lakh in 2020-21.
Lado Protsahan Yojana for girls and Shri Annapurna Rasoi (earlier Indira Rasoi) are in the major welfare schemes notes.
Health outcomes: NFHS-5 (2019-21)
NFHS-5 is the fifth National Family Health Survey (IIPS for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare). The national survey is dated 2019-21; in Rajasthan the fieldwork ran from 2 January to 21 March 2020 and from 10 December 2020 to 1 March 2021, and the state fact sheet is headed 2020-21. NFHS-4 was 2015-16.
| Indicator | Rajasthan NFHS-5 | Rajasthan NFHS-4 | India NFHS-5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children under 5 stunted (%) | 31.8 | 39.1 | 35.5 |
| Children under 5 wasted (%) | 16.8 | 23.0 | 19.3 |
| Children under 5 underweight (%) | 27.6 | 36.7 | 32.1 |
| Children aged 6-59 months anaemic (%) | 71.5 | 60.3 | 67.1 |
| Women aged 15-49 anaemic (%) | 54.4 | 46.8 | 57.0 |
| Pregnant women aged 15-49 anaemic (%) | 46.3 | 46.6 | 52.2 |
| Institutional births (%) | 94.9 | 84.0 | 88.6 |
| Children aged 12-23 months fully vaccinated, card or mother's recall (%) | 80.4 | 54.8 | 76.4 |
| Sex ratio at birth, births in the last five years (females per 1,000 males) | 891 | 887 | 929 |
| Total fertility rate (children per woman) | 2.0 | 2.4 | 2.0 |
| Neonatal mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) | 20.2 | 29.8 | 24.9 |
| Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) | 30.3 | 41.3 | 35.2 |
| Under-five mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) | 37.6 | 50.7 | 41.9 |
Births, deaths and maternal mortality: SRS
The Sample Registration System (SRS) of the Registrar General of India gives yearly vital rates. Crude birth and death rates are per 1,000 mid-year population; infant mortality is per 1,000 live births. Rajasthan's birth rate and infant mortality have been above India's every year since 2005 and its death rate below India's.
| SRS year | Birth rate Rajasthan | Birth rate India | Death rate Rajasthan | Death rate India | IMR Rajasthan | IMR India |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 28.6 | 23.8 | 7.0 | 7.6 | 68 | 58 |
| 2010 | 26.7 | 22.1 | 6.7 | 7.2 | 55 | 47 |
| 2015 | 24.8 | 20.8 | 6.3 | 6.5 | 43 | 37 |
| 2020 | 23.5 | 19.5 | 5.6 | 6.0 | 32 | 28 |
| 2021 | 23.6 | 19.3 | 6.7 | 7.5 | 31 | 27 |
| 2022 | 23.8 | 19.1 | 6.2 | 6.8 | 30 | 26 |
| 2023 | 22.9 | 18.4 | 5.9 | 6.4 | 29 | 25 |
| Maternal mortality ratio, SRS 2018-20 (per lakh live births) | Rajasthan 113, India 97 |
|---|---|
| Maternal mortality ratio, SRS 2021-23 | Rajasthan 86, India 88 |
| Total fertility rate, SRS 2023 | Rajasthan 2.3, India 1.9 |
| Life expectancy at birth, SRS abridged life table 2019-23 (years) | Rajasthan 70.4, India 70.3 |
Health facilities, December 2025
Government allopathic institutions, excluding medical colleges and their hospitals, up to December 2025.
| Sub-centres | 15,292 |
|---|---|
| Primary health centres | 2,589 |
| Urban PHCs under the National Urban Health Mission | 286 |
| Community health centres | 832; 17 urban CHCs under the National Urban Health Mission |
| Hospitals | 267 (63 district, 125 sub-district, 32 satellite and 47 other hospitals) |
| Mother and child welfare centres, dispensaries | 118 and 183 |
| Beds | 76,210 |
| Ayushman Arogya Mandir | The Ministry renamed Health and Wellness Centres Ayushman Arogya Mandir in November 2023; 638 urban mandirs functional under the National Urban Health Mission |
| ASHA workers (ASHA Sahyogini) | 54,022 |
| Medical colleges | 49 in all: 24 under the Rajasthan Medical Education Society (RajMES), 15 private, 2 ESI, AIIMS Jodhpur, 1 constituent college of RUHS and 6 other government colleges; 17 dental colleges |
| Medical seats sanctioned | 8,980 undergraduate, 3,930 postgraduate and 446 super-specialty, in government and private medical and dental colleges |
Health schemes running in 2025-26
The Rajasthan Right to Healthcare Act, 2023 is the state law that recognises the right to health. Figures are for 2025-26 up to December 2025 unless stated.
| Scheme | Department | Benefit | Started |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mukhyamantri Ayushman Arogya Yojana (MAA), earlier Mukhyamantri Chiranjeevi Swasthya Bima Yojana | Medical and Health | Cashless treatment up to Rs 25 lakh per family per year (Rs 5 lakh in insurance mode, Rs 20 lakh in trust mode) at government and empanelled private hospitals; about 1.36 crore families registered; 2,179 packages; free for NFSA, SECC, contractual-worker, small and marginal farmer, EWS, senior-citizen and COVID-19 ex-gratia families, others pay Rs 850 a year | 1 May 2021, as Chiranjeevi |
| Mukhyamantri Nishulk Nirogi Rajasthan (Dawa) Yojana | Medical and Health | Free essential medicines for indoor and outdoor patients at medical colleges, district hospitals, CHCs, PHCs, sub-centres and Ayushman Arogya Mandir; list of 1,238 medicines, 428 surgical items and 156 sutures; 15.73 crore patients in 2025-26 | 2 October 2011, as Nishulk Dawa |
| Mukhyamantri Nishulk Nirogi Rajasthan (Diagnostics) Yojana, the free tests scheme | Medical and Health | Free diagnostic tests in government hospitals; 13.55 crore tests for 3.90 crore people in 2025-26 | 7 April 2013 (first phase), as Nishulk Janch |
| Rajasthan Government Health Scheme (RGHS) | Finance (Insurance) | Cashless OPD and IPD for serving and retired state government employees, ministers, MLAs, ex-MLAs, All India Services officers and their dependants, registered through Jan Aadhaar; about 13.65 lakh families; more than 741 empanelled private hospitals in the state | 9 April 2021 |
| Ayushman Vay Vandan | Medical and Health | Cashless treatment for senior citizens aged 70 and above | 29 October 2024 |
| MAA (Mukhyamantri Ayushman Arogya) Voucher Scheme | Medical and Health | Free sonography for pregnant women at authorised private centres through QR-code vouchers; 1,462 centres; 2 lakh vouchers in 2025-26 | 2024 |
| 108 Ambulance Service | Medical and Health | Free emergency response; 1,094 ambulances | September 2008 |
Remember: often mixed up
- NFHS and SRSboth give infant mortality and fertility, but they are different surveys with different years (TFR 2.0 in NFHS-5, 2.3 in SRS 2023); read the source and year in the question
- Literacythe NFHS 'women who are literate' (64.7 per cent) covers women aged 15-49 who completed class 9 or can read a sentence; it is not the Census literacy rate
- Sex ratioNFHS-5's total-population sex ratio is 1,009 females per 1,000 males (a household survey of 2019-21); the Census 2011 sex ratio is on the population page
- College countsAISHE counts colleges of all kinds that registered; the Economic Review gives the Higher Education Department's own count of 3,218 general-education colleges, a different measure
- New namesChiranjeevi became Mukhyamantri Ayushman Arogya Yojana; the Nishulk Dawa and Nishulk Janch schemes were widened into Mukhyamantri Nishulk Nirogi Rajasthan from 1 May 2022; Health and Wellness Centres became Ayushman Arogya Mandir; the mid-day meal is now PM POSHAN
- RGHS and MAARGHS (Finance Department) is for ministers, MLAs and ex-MLAs, All India Services officers, state employees, pensioners and their families; MAA (Medical and Health) is for the wider population
Test yourself: asked in exams
Protection Officer 2024 · Q77
Consider the following statements regarding Health Indicators in Rajasthan - (A) Crude Birth Rate has been declining since 2005 but has always been above the All-India average. (B) Crude Death Rate has been declining since 2005 but has always been above All-India average. (C) Infant Mortality Rate has been declining since 2005 but has always been above All-India average. Choose the correct answer by using the following code - Code -
- (1)Both (A) and (C) are correct.
- (2)Both (B) and (C) are correct.
- (3)Both (A) and (B) are correct.
- (4)All (A), (B) and (C) are correct.
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✓ (1) Both (A) and (C) are correct.
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